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Intonation

Intonation is a prosodic feature of speech and musical expression characterized by the variation of pitch over time, serving to convey linguistic meaning, emotional intent, or syntactic structure through systematic patterns of fundamental frequency modulation.

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Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

Robert Freidin, Ray Jackendoff · Language · 1975 · 4.7K citations

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The intonation of American English. By Kenneth L. Pike. (University of Michigan Publications: Linguistics, Vol. 1.) Pp. xi + 200, lithoprinted. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1946.

Rulon Wells · Language · 1947 · 1.4K citations

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Expanded intonation contours in mothers' speech to newborns.

Anne Fernald, Thomas R. Simon · Developmental Psychology · 1984 · 751 citations

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Infant‐Directed Speech Facilitates Word Segmentation

Erik D. Thiessen, Emily Hill, Jenny R. Saffran · Infancy · 2005 · 721 citations

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Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English

René Collier · ITL Review of Applied Linguistics · 1969 · 713 citations

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    Carlos Gussenhoven

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    28 publications · 2.1K citations

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    Martine Grice

    University of Cologne, Germany

    17 publications · 873 citations

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    Pilar Prieto

    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain

    15 publications · 936 citations

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    Yi Xu

    University College London, United Kingdom

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Oliver Niebuhr

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    10 publications · 379 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    61 publications

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  2. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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    50 publications

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  3. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

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    56 publications

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  4. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, Spain

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    London, United Kingdom

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  6. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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  8. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

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  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 81 publications · 5.1K citations

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  2. Language and Speech

    57 publications · 3.7K citations

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  3. Phonetica

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  4. Language

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  5. Journal of Phonetics

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