INTONATION

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JUAN DIEGO DELGADO A.
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 What is Intonation ?

Is the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of

the voice when speaking, especially when this has an
effect on the meaning of what is said.
Intonation is about how we say things, rather than
what we say, the way the voice and falls when
speaking, in other words the music of the language.
 What is utterance ?

continuous piece of speech begining an ending with a

cleaur pause,
 What is tone ?

a variation in the pitch of the voice while speaking,to

help distinguish words are used to differentiate one
word from another word
 What is pitch ?

The high, medium and low sounds of our voice as we speako

What are the possible English tones?

FALLING

RISING
 FALLING

Falling intonation is the mos common intonation pattern in

English. It is commoly found in statements, comme¡ands, wh-
quiestions (information questions) confirmatory questionstags
and axclamations.

Nice to meet ↘ you

She doesn't live here ↘ anymore
I'm going for a walk in the↘ park
 RISING

Rising intonation invites the speaker to continue talking. It is

normally used with ye/no questions, and question tags that
are real questions.

Do you like youtr new ↗teacher ?

Do you sell ↗ stamps?
You like fish,↗ don't you?
 Rise-Fall

We use Rise-fall intonation for choices, lists, unifinished

thoughts and conditional sentences.

Are you having ↗

soup or ↘
salad?
↗ ↘
Is Jhon leaving on Thursday or Friday?

↗
We've got apples, pears, bananas and oranges.↘
↗ ↘
Ibought a tee-shirt, a skirt and a handbag
 Fall- Rise
the voice falls and rises usually within one word .The main funtion of fall-rise
intionation is to show thth the speaker is not certain of the answer they are
giving to aquestion, or is reluctant to reply ( opposed to a falling tone used
ehen there is no hestitation). Itis also used is polite requests or suggestions.

Perhaps we could ↘ ↗
vis it the place?
should we ↘ ↗
cop y the list?

So you'd be willing to confirm that? Well..

↘ ↗
I.. sup pose so..