NOUN | communication | pitch contour, intonation, modulation | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
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Meaning | Rise and fall of the voice pitch. | |
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Synonyms | intonation, modulation | |
Narrower | intonation pattern | intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements |
monotone, drone, droning | An unchanging intonation | |
singsong | A regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation | |
Broader | prosody, inflection | The patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
Spanish | entonación | |
Catalan | entonació |
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