A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch and rhythm, known as prosody, to provide emphasis, show emotion, and otherwise add meaning to what they say. But ...

Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just ...

How sign language users learn intonation Date: September 28, 2015 Source: Linguistic Society of America Summary: A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch ...

A global study of 48 languages shows that human speech follows a steady rhythm, with intonation units occurring every 1.6 ...

Prosody and intonation are fundamental components of spoken language, encompassing rhythm, stress, pitch variation and timing that go beyond mere lexical content.

Nancy Backman, Intonation Errors in Second-Language Pronunciation of Eight Spanish-Speaking Adults Learning English, Interlanguage Studies Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1979), pp. 239-265 ...

Brain scans seem to confirm what pet owners already suspected: Dogs not only comprehend the words we speak, but also how we say them.

If the use of these elements is as bad for the English language as it’s made out to be, then I have bad news about a few thousand other languages. How can we analyze intonation?

A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch and rhythm, known as prosody, to provide emphasis, show emotion, and otherwise add meaning to what they say. In ...