intonation Rising

Intonation Rising

Basically, your voice goes "higher" . When you are reading and you come to an important or scary part and your voice increases in sound and tone.
It also is when you raise your voice when asking a question. Especially a tag question. You like ice cream, don't you? This question is for confirmation not information.

Teaching intonation - the theories behind intonation

 Definitions

1. Tone

- the rise and fall of the voice.

Tune/Pitch variation

. An oscilloscope will give an oscillograph of speech. The frequency will be shown by the closeness of the waves (high frequency will be shown by waves which are closer together).

2. The volume

(strength of signal) will be shown by the height of the waves. Theheight of the note depends on the speed of opening and closing of the vocal cords.More vibrations of the larynx (up to 800 per sec) show up more compact waves.The first thing that people (Daniel Jones, Kindom, Pike) looked at was pitch variation.

Crude rules (Wh Qs fall; Yes/No Qs rise) based on introspection (whatdo I say?) rather than data. Those who have collected data come up with interestingfindings:

Does intonation tell us what speech function is?

Many authors of intonation practice books [ e.g. O'Connor and Arnold in"Intonation of Colloquial English" or Cook in "Active Intonation" and "UsingIntonation" ] provide exercises where speech functions such as polite requests orconfirmation questions dictate the intonation patterns which listeners shouldexpect or speakers should employ.However, the findings of some research projects - most notably the ScottishIntonation Project - are that the relationships between intonation patterns [such asthe tones categorized by O'Connor & Arnold] and speech functions are not sopredictable.

Clear instances of rising tune –

1. Echo questions e.g. you what?

2. Challenging e.g. on Monday?

3. Conciliation: Oh really?

What do we mean when speaking about intonation and why is intonation so important for those who want to improve their pronunciation skills?

In linguistics, the term "intonation" can be defined as the variation of pitch of the voice when speaking. Along with the word stress the intonation represents a significant element of linguistic prosody. In respect of intonation characteristics all languages can be divided into two large groups. The languages which use pitch to convey some ideas or concepts, for example, surprise, irony, etc. or to change a statement to a question, are called intonation languages: English and French are well-known examples. Some languages use pitch to recognize words: these are tonal languages: Thai and Hausa are examples. An intermediate position is occupied by languages with tonal word accent, for instance Norwegian or Japanese.

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RISING INTONATION- IS ANSWERABLE BY YES OR NO

1.Do you think his funny? no
2.Is your father handsome? yes
3.Can you sing? yes
4.Is this your school? yes
5.Do you eat Adobo? no

FALLING INTONATION- IS A SENTENCE, A QUESTION THAT IS NOT ANSWERABLE BY YES OR NO, But it is answerable by a sentence or a statement.

1.What is the brand of your pencil?
2What is your Sister's name?
3.What are the 4 fundamental operations?
4.My sister is hard working.
5.What's your name?