| 单词 | intonation contour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasintonation contour intonation contour n. a succession of levels of pitch extending over an utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pattern or sequence of pitch curve1902 tune1929 intonation tune1934 intonation curve1936 pitch contour1944 intonation contour1945 intonation pattern1966 1945 K. L. Pike Intonation Amer. Eng. iii. 20 All speakers of the language use basic pitch sequences in similar ways under similar circumstances. These abstracted characteristic sentence melodies may be called Intonation Contours. 1960 Language & Speech III. 223 (heading) Attitudinal meanings conveyed by intonation contours. 1964 R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. xix. 114 An intonation contour does not..make any difference in the ‘dictionary meaning’ of an utterance. 1970 Language 46 265 Its ultimate speech correlates appear in the shape of the tense-carrying morphemes, the word order, and the intonation contour. < as lemmas |
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