ASL STEM Logo

ASL STEM

Intonation Sign Video

No video uploaded yet.

Definition

Commonly refers to the pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech such as a sentence. The meaning of a sentence can depend in part on the intonation contour of the sentence.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson
Other Submissions

BROWSE

All

> Science

> Social Science

> Linguistics

> Phonetics

> Suprasegmentals

> Intonation

* video needed

click here to zoom in