Rising-Falling Intonation

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Rising-Falling Intonation
What is intonation?
Intonation
Pronunciation
Word-Stress
The noteofwhatwesay. The “melody”.
Expressthespeaker’sfeelingsandattitude.
Askingaquestion.
Donespeaking.
It’sachangeinpitchwithinagroupofwordsinastatement.
The standardformulationofanyparticularword.
Stresswithinaword.
Whenthespeakermakesthesyllablelouder,longerandatahigherpitch.
Examples:
How are you?
How are you?
I know more about it than he does.
Could you record it?
What is Rising-Falling Intonation?
This pattern begin on the normal tune and ends by raising the voice to a higher tune on the last stressed syllable of the sentence, then making it falls to a lower tune:
 
Clear rising-falling intonation establishes a mood of certainty and completeness.
 
Slide:
Both the high and the low notes are heard as the last syllable is pronounced, and the voice descends from the high note to the low note within the syllable:
 
The use of Rising-Falling Intonation:
Simple statements of fact (declarative sentences):
Commands:
Questions that begin with an interrogative word: