intonation

At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna Mikhaylovna's voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps.

You shall, I trust, rest here with me a while, so that by our talking I may learn the English intonation.

Having repeated them several times with various intonations, she sprang into the water, where she was suffered to drown.

Transcribed here the speech sounds harmless enough, particularly as uttered in the sweet, high, casual pipe with which, at all interlocutors, but above all at his eternal governess, he threw off intonations as if he were tossing roses.

She was in an agony of terror for Vronsky, but a still greater agony was the never-ceasing, as it seemed to her, stream of her husband's shrill voice with its familiar intonations.

These fifty-nine poets give intimate, informal readings of their work, allowing readers to focus on the intended sound and intonation behind the verse as they follow these carefully chosen poems in the text.

Investigating 12 languages from different language families and disparate regions of the African continent, linguists discuss the complete prosodic system of the language or languages, that is the tone and intonation and the interaction between the two.

He emphasized the need for learning the intonation as well as correct pronunciation to master the art of reading.

Meaningful words like "good boy" activate the left side of a dog's brain regardless of tone of voice; a region on the right side responds to intonation, scientists report in the Sept.

According to a new study making this suggestion, dogs can distinguish between words and the intonation of human speech by using brain regions similar to those used by humans.