Good and clear explanation, I’d like to add that another point of view may see the tones in a list as raising and the last item carries a falling tone. On the other hand Peter Roach defines rise-fall - ‘This is used to convey strong feelings of approval, disapproval or surprise.’ I hope this makes sense (I am studying EFL)
From the Book Intonation of colloquial English (O’Connor and Arnold) Ex. My \/mother was born in Sheffield. (But not my father) The fall-rise tone add emphasis to the fact that is her mother and not his father who was born there.
Yes! A rising intonation is definitely used to acoustically highlight/stress words, and that changes the intended meaning/emphasis! Also, each dialect of English has intonation patterns that differ from each other, although the 3 broad ones I review in this video generally hold across many of them.
Most interesting indeed. But there are intonation patterns that are generational too aren’t there? For instance, I notice my younger colleagues (millennials) tend to speak in a manner where their statements end with a rising intonation. It sounds as though they are asking a question but they’re only stating some facts. Similarly one notices that newscasters of an earlier generation spoke with a different rhythm and intoned differently than they do today.
Your observations are right on point!!! Yes, what you are referring to is the classic "Valley girl" accent epitomized in the movie Clueless!!😊😊 With regard to earlier generations of newscasters, I will have to listen to it intentionally, to see exactly what is going on, but I think more than intonation, it may have more to do with vowel production. But I'm going to go back and listen, analyze, and report back 😊😊
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Good and clear explanation, I’d like to add that another point of view may see the tones in a list as raising and the last item carries a falling tone. On the other hand Peter Roach defines rise-fall - ‘This is used to convey strong feelings of approval, disapproval or surprise.’ I hope this makes sense (I am studying EFL)
Very interesting! What would be an example of this? Thank you for watching, and for leaving me a comment! I love to hear feedback!!🙏🙏
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From the Book Intonation of colloquial English (O’Connor and Arnold) Ex. My \/mother was born in Sheffield. (But not my father)
The fall-rise tone add emphasis to the fact that is her mother and not his father who was born there.
Yes! A rising intonation is definitely used to acoustically highlight/stress words, and that changes the intended meaning/emphasis! Also, each dialect of English has intonation patterns that differ from each other, although the 3 broad ones I review in this video generally hold across many of them.
Most interesting indeed. But there are intonation patterns that are generational too aren’t there? For instance, I notice my younger colleagues (millennials) tend to speak in a manner where their statements end with a rising intonation. It sounds as though they are asking a question but they’re only stating some facts. Similarly one notices that newscasters of an earlier generation spoke with a different rhythm and intoned differently than they do today.
Your observations are right on point!!! Yes, what you are referring to is the classic "Valley girl" accent epitomized in the movie Clueless!!😊😊 With regard to earlier generations of newscasters, I will have to listen to it intentionally, to see exactly what is going on, but I think more than intonation, it may have more to do with vowel production. But I'm going to go back and listen, analyze, and report back 😊😊