intonation
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Intonation didn’t seem to matter a whit to her.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2024
He pored over rudimentary websites, read scholarly essays and ordered a spiral-bound workbook called “The Just Intonation Primer.”
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
Intonation, the proper accentuation of some words over others in a sentence, all of these are crucial elements of Cash’s eventual success.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2018
Intonation is not a critical characteristic of most human languages, but to the Utmano, a change in pitch is an essential communication detail.
From Nature • Feb. 1, 2012
Intonation is used as a grammatic process only to a limited extent—simply to assist in forming the interrogative and imperative modes.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by Powell, John Wesley
Vocabulary lists containing intonation
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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