Functions of intonation. Components of the intonation. Notion of tone. Static and kinetic tones. Intonation and expressiveness of questions. Meaning and use of disjunctive questions in present-day speech. Intonation is said to indicate the attitudes.
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INTRODUCTION Intonation is crucial for communication. Its also a largely unconscious mechanism, and as such, a complex aspect of pronunciation. Its divided into phrases, also known as tone-units. The pitch moves up and down, within a pitch range. Everybody has their own pitch range. Languages, too, differ in pitch range. English has particularly wide pitch range. In each tone unit, the pitch movement (a rise or fall in tone, or a combination of the two) takes place on the most important syllable known as the tonic-syllable. The tonic-syllable is usually a high-content word, near the end of the unit. These patterns of pitch variation are essential to a phrases meaning. Changing the intonation can completely change the meaning. e.g. Its raining. You could say it to mean What a surprise!, or How annoying!, or Thats great!. There are many possibilities. This paper is based on the investigation of phonetic features of general and disjunctive questions due to the film “Another Cinderella Story”. Another Cinderella