intonation

Example Sentences

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Some longer phrases are heavy lifting; the high notes are not all comfortable; and some of the intonation wavers in softer passages of Isolde’s Narrative and Curse.

From New York Times

“I hear the different intonation features. I hear the different pitch movements, and my brain assigns different meanings to those.”

From Los Angeles Times

Generation Z may think the sender made a conscious decision to use a period, and that its purpose may be to convey intonation, Verheijen added.

From Washington Post

It's best to think of an accent as a distinct, systematic, rule-governed way of speaking, including sound features such as intonation, stress and pronunciation.

From Salon

“Clean articulation, fine intonation, and technical savvy — a particularly fine roll, smooth as butter — rich tonal sensibility, and what was really mind blowing, she phrases.”

From Washington Post