intonational — intonation ► NOUN 1) the rise and fall of the voice in speaking. 2) the action of intoning. 3) accuracy of musical pitch. DERIVATIVES intonational adjective … English terms dictionary
intonational — adjective see intonation … New Collegiate Dictionary
intonational — See intonation. * * * … Universalium
intonational — adjective Pertaining to intonation … Wiktionary
intonational — in·to·na·tion·al … English syllables
intonational — adjective see intonation * * * intonāˈtional adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑intonate … Useful english dictionary
intonation — intonational, adj. /in toh nay sheuhn, teuh /, n. 1. the pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech, esp. the pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures. 2. the act… … Universalium
Pitch accent — is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to… … Wikipedia
Metrical phonology — is a theory of stress or linguistic prominence.[1] [2] The innovative feature of this theory is that the prominence of a unit is defined relative to other units in the same phrase. For example, in the most common pronunciation of the phrase… … Wikipedia
High rising terminal — The High Rising Terminal (HRT), also known as uptalk, upspeak or High Rising Intonation (HRI), is a feature of some accents of English where statements have a rising intonation pattern in the final syllable or syllables of the utterance.… … Wikipedia
