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Figuring Out the Intended Meaning of Intonation in Some English Conversational Utterances

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2018
  The study aims at figuring out the intended meaning of intonation in some English conversational utterances together with identifying pitch variations that are determined by various syntactic constructions that impart the same illocutionary force of ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wpływ intonacji na zapamiętanie przekazu werbalnego [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The effects of intonation on the recall of sentences were examined. One major hypothesis was made: intonation affects the recall of sentences. A 4 x 2 (four types of intonations x speaker’s gender) experiment was used.
Ziaja, Joanna
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THE SEMIOTIC NATURE OF INTONATION

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2014
The article is devoted to the main approaches to intonation analysis – the semiotic nature of intonation is discussed. The author proves the fact that intonation is a bilateral phenomenon having a content plan and an expression plan, and reveals the ...
Khromov Sergey Sergeevich
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Questioning and responding in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Questions are design problems for both the questioner and the addressee. They must be produced as recognizable objects and must be comprehended by taking into account the context in which they occur and the local situated interests of the participants ...
Rossano, F.
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Objectives—The purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between speech intelligibility and prosody production in children who use cochlear implants.
Bergeson, Tonya R.   +2 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

The Intonation of Polar Questions in North American (“Heritage”) Icelandic

open access: yesJournal Of Germanic Linguistics, 2018
Using map task data, this paper investigates the intonation of polar questions in North American (heritage) Icelandic, and compares it to the intonation of polar questions in Icelandic as spoken in Iceland and in North American English as spoken in ...
Nicole Dehé
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Temporal markers of prosodic boundaries in children's speech production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
It is often thought that the ability to use prosodic features accurately is mastered in early childhood. However, research to date has produced conflicting evidence, notably about the development of children's ability to mark prosodic boundaries.
Dankovicová, J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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