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    The document discusses the intonation patterns used when saying short utterances like "yes" and "no". There are three basic tones - level, falling, and rising. However, there are also more complex tones like fall-rise and rise-fall where the pitch descends and then rises or vice versa. Every speaker has their own normal pitch range, with a top level being the highest pitch and a bottom level being the lowest. In ordinary speech, intonation typically occurs within the lower part of one's pitch range, but strong feelings can cause use of extra pitch height outside of the normal range.

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    The document discusses the intonation patterns used when saying short utterances like "yes" and "no". There are three basic tones - level, falling, and rising. However, there are also more complex tones like fall-rise and rise-fall where the pitch descends and then rises or vice versa. Every speaker has their own normal pitch range, with a top level being the highest pitch and a bottom level being the lowest. In ordinary speech, intonation typically occurs within the lower part of one's pitch range, but strong feelings can cause use of extra pitch height outside of the normal range.

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    The document discusses the intonation patterns used when saying short utterances like "yes" and "no". There are three basic tones - level, falling, and rising. However, there are also more complex tones like fall-rise and rise-fall where the pitch descends and then rises or vice versa. Every speaker has their own normal pitch range, with a top level being the highest pitch and a bottom level being the lowest. In ordinary speech, intonation typically occurs within the lower part of one's pitch range, but strong feelings can cause use of extra pitch height outside of the normal range.

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     SIMPLE TONE

    There are three simple possibilities for the intonation used in pronouncing one-
    syllable utterances yes and no: level, fall, and rise.  

     COMPLEX TONE:
    But there are other more complex tones also used and they occur quite frequently.
    - the «fall-rise tone«, where the pitch descends and then rises again.

    - the «rise-fall» tone, where the pitch does the exact opposite thing, ascends and
    descends.

     PITCH RANGE: every speaker has his own normal pitch range
    A top-level which is the highest pitch normally used by the speaker, and a bottom
    level that the speaker’s pitch normally does not go below.
    In ordinary speech-intonation tends to take place within the lower part of the speaker’s
    pitch range.
    Only with strong feelings we use extra pitch height.
    If we represent the pitch range by drawing two parallel lines representing the highest
    and lowest limits of the range:
    - Normal unemphatic:

    - Strong emphatic:

    We can also use a new symbol (vertical upward arrow) to indicate extra pitch height

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