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Echo questions in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2019
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) can have the wh-element in-situ with two types of sentence intonation: (a) the rising intonation of a yes/no question, in which case it is interpreted as an echo question, and (b) the falling intonation, similar to that of a ...
Mary A. Kato
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INTONATION AND PRAGMATICS - THE LOCAL BAHDINANI DIALECT AS AN EXAMPLE

open access: yesگۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ
  This research, titled "Intonation and Pragmatics: A Study of the Behdinani Local Dialect," analyzes speech from both phonetic and pragmatic perspectives, focusing on the use of intonation among Kurdish speakers of the Behdinani dialect.
Berevan Mousa, Abdulwahab Musa
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Perception of the attitudinal function of intonation in responding to Yes/No questions: A study of non-native English language teachers

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education, 2018
This study highlights the importance of intonation and its function for intelligibility in communication, particularly amongst teachers in ESL classrooms.
Noor Alhusna Madzlan   +1 more
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La phonologie des exclamations en anglais

open access: yesCorela, 2019
Based on a corpus made up of recordings from Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, this article investigates the phonology of exclamative utterances.
Stephan Wilhelm
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.Phonological Analysis of Intonation in Selected American Movies

open access: yesالأستاذ
As per to (Simpson 2004:6) phonology is the study of speech sounds that convey meaning intonation and pitch communicate that meaning in certain contextual situations. Intonation is the variety of pitch of voice during the speech.
Noor Qassim Mohammed
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Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2020
In tonal languages, the role of intonation in information-structuring has yet to be fully investigated. Intuitively, one would expect intonation to play only a small role in expressing communicative functions.
Annika Tjuka   +2 more
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Markierte Intonation im wissenschaftlichen Vortrag. Eine Fallstudie [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to describe so-called “marked” intonation. What this means is that the intonation contour is indicated by a sharply rising pitch.
Marta Rogozińska
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QUESTION WITH INTONATION IN MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO HISTORICAL PERIODS OF TURKISH: THE CASE OF TEZKIRE-I SHEIKH SAFI

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018
The question meaning in Turkish sentences; is provided with question words and stress/tone/intonation. It is easy to identify the question sentences in written sources formed by interrogative particle or question word.
Feyza TOKAT
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Intonation cues to English public discourse perception

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология
The study considers the discourse functions of intonation and identifies a few problems and contradictions in the current theories of intonation functioning.
Yе. N. Mitrofanova
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Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2016
Intonation is the phonologically structured variation in phonetic features, primarily pitch, to express phrase-level meanings. As in other speech sound domains, analyzing intonation involves mapping continuously variable physical parameters to categories.
Sónia Frota
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