To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. You can also use a falling intonation in your question tags when you think you know the answer, but you want to check. For example: Ruby's going to ...
Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...
On November 16th, Professor Nancy Hedberg presented research, co-authored by SFU Linguistics PhD student Yifang Yuan, titled The Meaning of Non-Canonical Question Intonation in English. The research ...
Australians have long known the value of adding an upward inflection to the ends of our sentences. It makes everything sound a bit like a question, doesn't it? The "high-rising terminal" (or the ...