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ULFATUS SILFIA (2135511049)

FARIDA (2135511005)
ENGLISH INTONATION
A. INTRODUCTION
 EXPLAIN OF ENGLISH INTONATION
B. DISCUSSION
1. DEFINITION OF ENGLISH INTONATION
2. TYPES AND EXAMPLE OF ENGLISH INTONATION
3. THE FUNCTION OF ENGLISH INTONATION

C. CONCLUTION
D. REFERENCES

1. DEFINITION OF ENGLISH INTONATION

Intonation refers to how the voice can change pitch to convey meaning. In essence,
intonation replaces punctuation in spoken language.
2. TYPES AND EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH INTONATION
1. Falling intonation
Falling intonation describes how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of
phrase or a group of words. A falling intonation is very common in wh- questions.
Example: Where’s the nearest post office?
What time does the film finish?
Also use falling intonation when we say something definite, or when we want to
be very clear about something.
Example: I think we are completely lost
Ok, here’s the magazine you wanted
2. Rising intonation
Rising intonation describes how the voice rises at the end of a sentence. Rising
intonation is common in yes-no question.
Example: I hear the health centre is expanding. So, is that the new doctor?
Are you thirsty?
3. Fall-rise intonation
Fall-rise intonation describes how the voice falls and the rises, we use fall-rise
intonation at the end of statements when we want to say that we are not sure, or
when we may have more to add.
 Example: I don’t support any football team at the moment. (but I may change my
mind in future)
It rained every day in the first week, (but I may change my mind in
future)
3. THE FUNCTION OF ENGLISH INTONATION
1. Intonation enables us to express emotions and attitudes as we speak, and this adds
a special kind of “meaning” to spoken language. This is often called the
attitudinal function of intonation.
2. Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be
perceived as stressed, and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular
syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-
unit. In this case, intonation works to focus attention on a particular lexical item
or syllable. This has been called the accentual function of intonation.
3. The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of
what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation; for
example, such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases, clauses or
sentences, the difference between questions and statements, and the use of
grammatical subordination may be indicated. This has been called the
grammatical function of intonation.
4. Looking at the act of speaking in a broader way, we can see that intonation can
signal to the listener what is to be taken as “new” information and what is already
“given”, can suggest when the speaker is indicating some sort of contrast or link
with material in another tone-unit and, in conversation, can convey to the listener
what kind of response is expected. Such functions are examples of intonation’s
discourse function.
C. CONCLUTION
Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech.
D. REFERENCES
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/intonation
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/english/prosody/intonation/
Roach, peter, 2009, English phonetics and phonology a practical course fourth edition,