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Intonation
Content Words
Usually the content words (see section on
Rhythm) are the words that are
stressed in a sentence, but they don't have to be. The speaker has the choice of
which words to stress and add emphasis to, depending on the message he or she is
expressing. The change in intonation and pitch occurs under varying situations.
Intonation can change:
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to
emphasize new information
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to
give special meaning to certain words
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to
offer open or closed choices
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when asking tag questions
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when talking about people
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when talking to people
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and when giving lists.
This
page will examine the changes in intonation and pitch when asking
choice questions and tag questions.
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Choice Questions: All choice questions have an 'or' in them and can
either be open or
closed question. Open and closed choice questions have
different intonation patterns and require a different kind of answer.
An open
question is a kind of yes or no question. An open choice question has two
possible intonation patterns.
In the first,
there is rising intonation after both choices.
In the second, there is rising
intonation only after the second choice.
Both can be answered with a yes or no answer. Look at the questions below. The
meaning for both is does she like
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A. Does she like
chicken or meat?
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B. Does she like chicken
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Possible answers:
Yes, she likes chicken. or Yes, she likes meat.
No, she doesn't like either.
Yes, she likes both.
No, but she likes fish. |
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A closed choice question has limited choices. It can not be
answered with a yes or no,
but with one or the other choices or neither.
Note the difference in
intonation patterns between an open choice and closed
choice
question. |
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A. Does she like
chicken or meat? |
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Possible answers
She likes meat. or She likes chicken.
She likes both.
Neither. |
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Tag Questions- There are two different kinds of tag questions- one where
the speaker
is unsure of the answer and the other where the speaker
expects agreement. Both
questions have different intonation patterns.
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Speaker is unsure of the
answer, speaker doesn't know whether Susan has eaten ot not. |
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Susan ate, didn't she? |
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Speaker expects a yes to
the question, speaker expects Susan has eaten. |
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Susan ate, didn't she? |
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Other
Intonation Pages
Page 1
Information Focus
Page 2
Intonation Patterns
Page 3 New
information and Special meaning
Page 5 Talking
to/about people and Lists
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