| 单词 | rise-fall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrise-fall rise-fall n. Phonetics an increase and subsequent decrease of pitch compressed into one syllable; cf. fall-rise adj. and n. at fall n.2 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pitch > rising or falling cadence1598 rise1626 pause-pitch1933 question-pitch1933 rise-fall1933 downdrifta1949 downturn1955 upturn1964 1933 Amer. Speech 8 62 (caption) Rise-fall. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 130/2 The dialect is noteworthy for its circumflex intonation, both rise-fall and fall rise. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising v. 49 The..advertisement..contains three examples of the rise-fall tone... A contour line above each example indicates the position of the rise-fall. 1973 Archivum Linguisticum 4 25 In paratone I..the ‘low rise-fall’..is likely to be followed by the ‘wide fall’. < as lemmas |
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