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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