Recent studies have shown that utterance particles and some specific intonation are in complementary distribution (Wakefield 2011, Zhang 2014).
Alternatively, there is evidence that tones could be assimilated to specific intonation (prosodic) categories in nontone languages (So & Best 2008, 2011, 2014), although it is quite possible that native intonation categories might not have the same degree of influence as native tone categories (Hallé et al., 2004).
To get in the groove for the role of the Riders on the Storm crooner, Kilmer learned 50 songs from the band's back catalogue and interrogated former Doors producer Paul Rothschild for months, learning specific intonations to help him perfectly channel the spirit of the 60s rocker.
I've gone all-in with each assistant at various times but now my entire connected life is run through a series of commands that are held together by specific intonations, exact phrasing and speaking volumes of which I alone fully grasp.
Your teacher should be able to help correct your pronunciation by picking out your weaker points and giving you specific exercises to improve your intonation, inflexion, and sound linking.
If changing the action of the guitar does not work, guitar experts will pursue various structural fixes to fix intonation problems on the specific strings that don't sound right.
As with any qualitative inquiry, during the process of analysis the authors may not have captured nuances of intonations and personal vernacular specific to the participants that may have provided even further nuances related to their experiences.
"Gumperz was paying attention to the details of how language is used: your intonation, where you pause, the specific expressions that people from one culture or another might use".
The aim of the present study was to characterize specific prosodic components such as linguistic prosody (intonation, rhythm and emphasis) and emotional prosody and to correlate them with the neural network underlying them.
Past works have shown the importance of syllables for the transmission of emotions, while classical research methods adopted in prosody show that it is important to concentrate on specific areas of the speech signal to study intonation phenomena.
More detailed analysis revealed that during their childhood, schizophrenia patients with a comorbid PDD differed from those without one in five specific items: "lacks facial expression", "delayed echolalia", "odd intonation", "destructive behavior" and "strips in public".
