To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. You can also use a falling intonation in your question tags when you think you know the answer, but you want to check. For example: Ruby's going to ...

This week's question comes from Ricky in Xi'an who wants to know more about intonation in English. As he points out, intonation is different from pronunciation, and is an important part of learning to ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

On November 16th, Professor Nancy Hedberg presented research, co-authored by SFU Linguistics PhD student Yifang Yuan, titled The Meaning of Non-Canonical Question Intonation in English. The research ...

Vol. 36, No. 125, SOVIET-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF RUSSIAN: Theory, Strategies and Tools (Fall 1982), pp. 113-119 (7 pages) RLJ is a bilingual scholarly review of research, ...

The popularity of Australian soaps and reality television shows is blamed for an increasing adoption of the inflection at the end of a sentence, a pattern of speech called the Australian Question ...