Intonation pattern / Falling and Rising intonation

 INTONATION


Falling intonation pattern

Falling intonation literally means the feature of some accents of English where statements have a falling intonation patterns or low fundamental frequency or a low tone in the final syllable of the utterance.

Examples:

* I'm not going.

* The last syllable of the word in the exmple is low tone.ryt?.it should not pronounced as or the intonation should not be rising..gets?

Generally speaking, the following intonations are distinguished:

· Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice rises over time [↗];

· Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls with time [↘];

· Dipping Intonation falls and then rises [↘↗];

· Peaking Intonation rises and then falls [↗↘].

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                                            Rising intonation pattern

In rising intonation the speaker’s pitch rises and stays HIGH at the end of a sentence. The rising pitch at the end of a sentence indicates that the speaker is waiting for a reply.

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