2. 'Intonation' means when, why and how a
speaker chooses to raise, lower or sustain
the pitch of her or his voice at particular
points while speaking.
Example:
“-Your name is _John,”(simple assertion)
“`Your name is John?”,(question)
3. It is a part of super segmental phonology.
Intonation is a term used to refer to the
distinctive use of different patterns of pitch
that carry meaningful information
Listening somebody speaking without paying
attention to the words: the melody you hear
is the intonation.
4. It is necessary that the rises and falls must
be linguistically significant.
And speaker does have control over his
pitch.
For instance, due to the irregular movement
of speaker, he may have sudden rises and
falls in speech which cannot be controlled.
The difference in pitch is not significant
5. Tone is the major pitch movement within the
tone unit. Theoverall behavior of pitch is “tone”
choice of pitch movement.
The meaning component deriving from tone
does not attach to the word level only but to the
complete tone unit.
The communication value of prominence and
tone choice depends on interaction between
listener and speaker.
6. Example:
When is the meeting?
On Saturday afterNOON
On SATurday afternoon
There are two types of tone
1. Falling Tone
2. Rising Tone
7. These glides falling and rising occurs with in
connected speech.
In single word, it occurs with in syllables.
English is not tone language because
different tones make no difference in
meanings.
But chinese is a tone language.
