INTONATION

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Is your name Katherine?

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Rising intonation

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Who is your teacher?

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Falling intonation

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A phonetic feature that depends on how fast the vocal folds vibrate; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone is called

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pitch

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Women and children tend to have higher voices because they have a smaller larynx; as a result, ...

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the vocal folds are shorter, and they vibrate faster.

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Variation in the pitch of the voice over a group of words (i.e., a tone unit) is called

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intonation

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Wh-questions, e.g. "What do you mean?" are pronounced with

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falling intonation.

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We use rising intonation...

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in yes/no questions.

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Which tone would you use when asking, “Can I help you?”

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Rising

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If you use fall-rise intonation when saying “I think it’s blue,” you mean...

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that you are not sure.

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Which tone would you use if you want to give an order?

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Falling