SAMPLE COMMENTARY OF THE INTONATION OF EXPRESSIVENESS
This utterance is
emotionally
coloured so I’ve
pronounced it
as a compound tune with the
combination of :
1. High Rise + High Rise
2. Low Rise + Fall
3. Fall + Fall-Rise
4. Fall + Fall
5. Fall-Rise + Fall
to give/ to express
1. a feeling of surprise / incredulity (gen.
questions)
2. a feeling of mystification / puzzlement
(questions); persuasiveness / expostulation,
strong disapproval, disagreement / protest
(statements); wonderment (exclamations)
3. special emphasis / an apologetic note
(statements); a note of reproach
(imperatives)
4. emphasis / contrast; insistence (sp. + gen.
questions), dogmatism (statements), energy
(imperatives), extra emphasis
(exclamations)
5. emphasis/ contrast
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