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Yendrrek Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Intonation

0 Hi, I just wanted to see what would be your ideas about intonation (rising or falling) in below examples:02br
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001.Who is he? 02br
002.Is she here? 02br
003.You´re going aren´t you? 02br
004.You aren´t going are you? 02br
005.Why did you do it? 02br
006.That´s so nice of you! 02br
007.Tim said that? 02br
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0Hi, good question! I too wanted to open a thread about stress and intonation, you stole my question! 05002br 00 I just started to pay a little more attention to stress in sentences, since I realized I make an avalanche of mistakes.

— Kooyeen

  • 0Hi, good question!
  • I too wanted to open a thread about stress and intonation, you stole my question!
  • 05002br 00 I just started to pay a little more attention to stress in sentences, since I realized I make an avalanche of mistakes.
  • 02br 02br 00 My problem is guessing the "usual" stress (you can stress what you want in a sentence, depending on what you want to emphasize, but I usually can't guess where the "normal" stress would be).
  • 02br 02br 00Let's wait for some native speakers then.
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0Hi, good question! I too wanted to open a thread about stress and intonation, you stole my question! 05002br
00 I just started to pay a little more attention to stress in sentences, since I realized I make an avalanche of mistakes. Stress an intonation in my language is really too different from English...02br
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00 My problem is guessing the "usual" str
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0Typically you will have a rising intonation for a question. However, the overall intonation pattern will depend on the context, as varying the nucleus in each of your examples by putting the primary stress on a different word will completely change the meaning.02br
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01i01b00Is02b02i00 she here
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0 Who is HE \02br
00 Who IS / he02br
00 Is she HERE /02br
00 Is SHE / here02br
00 You're GOing \ AREn't / you02br
00 You aren't GOing \ ARE / you02br
00 Why did you DO \ it02br
00 That's so NICE \ of you02br
00 TIM / said that02br
00 Tim said THAT /02br
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