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In many languages, a "phrase final rise" indicates a question.
A cardiologist reads the EKG and indicates a question of myocardial infarction, a heart attack.
Thus, "Your name is John," beginning with a medium pitch and ending with a lower one (falling intonation), is a simple assertion; "Your name is John?", with a rising intonation (high final pitch), indicates a question.
The final suffix /mi/ indicates a question.
This phenomenon has been widely studied and was generalized as the Strong Universalist Hypothesis (Ladd, 1981), according to which pitch rising indicates a question and pitch falling indicates a statement.
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IBM has developed a simple programming language to add intonation and expression--like the higher pitch that indicates a question--which makes speech easier to understand than the monotone most people associate with talking computers.
Every branch uses 'k' sounds to indicate a question.
In Finnish, -ko is added to a verb to indicate a question.
Actually, in Greek, the same symbol has been used since ancient times to indicate a question.
Thus, a low P value indicates a difficult question.
Dashes indicate that a question was not asked or a category was not provided in a particular year.
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