• An Example of Intonation (Russian: Пример интонации, romanized: Primer intonatsii) is a 1991 Russian documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The...
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  • ɪt ɒn ðə ↘︎ˈstɹiːt ‖] How did you ever escape? [↗︎ˈhaʊ dɪdjuː ˈɛvɚ ə↘︎ˈskeɪp ‖] Here, as is common with wh- questions, there is a rising intonation on...
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    music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies. An interval tuned...
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  • In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously...
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  • rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences can end with a...
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  • Prosody (linguistics) (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    lion!" The exchange above is an example of using intonation to highlight particular words and to employ rising and falling of pitch to change meaning. If...
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    Alexander Sokurov (category Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika")
    Transcaucasia (1990) A Simple Elegy (1990) A Retrospection of Leningrad (1957–1990) (1990) An Example of Intonation (1991) Elegy from Russia (1992) Soldier's Dream...
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    syntactically declarative but is understood as a question by the use of a rising intonation. For example, "You're not using this?" On the other hand, there are English...
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  • available way of forming yes–no questions – they lack a way of marking such questions grammatically, and thus do so using intonation only. Examples of such languages...
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  • Gyeongsang dialect, the repetition of the syllable 가 ("ga") with the right intonation can form meaningful phrases. For example: "가가 가가?" which means "Are they...
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