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The phrase 'falling tune' is not a standard part of the English language and is not typically used in written English. It could be used to describe something less literal, such as a person's mood that is rapidly decreasing, for example: "Her mood was a falling tune, going from joy to despair in a matter of minutes."
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The advanced speakers also mostly produced a falling tune for this question type.
Advanced speakers also produced this question types mostly with a rising tunes (86%) and occasionally with a falling tune (24%).
The advanced speakers also mostly used a falling tune for the statement and a rise tune for the tag (F-R: 93%).
While the native English speakers tend to deaccent the final part of the utterance when it has a falling tune, consistent with the general patterns for standard English (Ladd, 1978), neither of the L2 learner groups accommodate to this feature.
The symbol * means significant at p < 0.01. Figure 5 and Additional file 2 showed that native English speakers mostly used either a falling tune or deaccenting at the end of the WH-questions.
As shown in Fig. 2, the native English speakers produced Yes-No questionotnonlynly with rising final tune (80%) but also with either a falling tune or deaccenting.
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By contrast, apart from the falling tunes (92%), the beginner produced fall-rise FR), rise(R) and level (L) tunes.
In addition, transfer at the phonetic level is indicated by the fact that Vietnamese speakers of English failed to deaccent the final falling tunes and used a variation of L1 tonal contours for their English intonation.
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