Match each spoken English utterance on the left with its standard Received Pronunciation (RP) intonation contour pattern on the right.
- "What time does the morning train depart?"Falling tune (pitch falls on the primary accent to indicate finality and completeness)
- "Is the headmaster in his office right now?"Rising tune (pitch rises on the primary accent to signal an open polar question)
- "She passed the examination, although she didn't study hard."Fall-rise tune (pitch falls and then rises to convey contrast or reservation)
- "What a splendid performance that was!"Rise-fall tune (pitch rises then falls to express strong emotion or exclamatory emphasis)
Cevap
Wh-questions match with the falling tune; polar (yes/no) questions match with the rising tune; sentences expressing reservation or contrast match with the fall-rise tune; exclamations expressing strong emotion match with the rise-fall tune.
Each utterance corresponds to its canonical RP pitch movement: Wh-questions end with a falling pitch; polar questions end with a rising pitch; contrastive statements take a fall-rise tune; and exclamations take a rise-fall tune.
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Standard RP Intonation Patterns and Tone Functions