The overall pattern of the intonation group responses, shown in Fig. 7a, suggests that the "falling" category (statement or order) was favored on the whole (although note that "falling" is the only category that contains two intonation types), but there was a slight tendency for rising tones to be assimilated to rising intonation patterns (i.e., question).
Besides the coat-and-dress ensembles--some with Astrakhan fur trims--the coats themselves make a big fall statement.
As the value of θ falls, the statement "if MRU ≥ θ" (line 5) is more likely to evaluate True.
If the GDP had continued to decline yet unemployment had fallen, my statement would have been tested, and it would have failed.
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.
I've noticed since then that the Home Office's usual drug policy rebuttal statement, "falling drug use" etc., activated in the face of any well-researched evidence about drug policy from around the globe, has changed to " long term falling drug use shows our policy... .. Very clever.
Clearly, the fit will be higher for the likely than the unlikely characteristic with the conjunctive statement falling in between.
The Soviet Army built in all eight monuments to its fallen comrades, statements from an era of monumental propaganda, in the fallen enemy capital.
When tones were presented in sentence form to English and French speakers, and using slightly different categories, level (55) and dipping (214) tones were perceived predominantly as statements, rising (35) tones as questions, and falling (51) tones as statements for English speakers but as exclamations for French speakers (So & Best, 2011, 2014).
Metaphysical statements fall into two main classes: statements about what exists and prescriptions about how to take or understand what exists.
