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2.3.2.
English, Uzbek and Russian languages intonation
In
linguistics, intonation is the variation of pitch. Intonation and stress are
two main elements of linguistic prosody. Intonation is a part of suprasegmental
phonology. Intonation helps to recognize the language
that you hear in the same
way as the melody of a song helps to recognize the song that you hear. That is why
“Intonation” is the melody or music of a language. It consists of a number of
components and comparing languages have adifference in the number of these
components.
For instance:
Components of intonation
English
Uzbek
Russian
Pitch
Sentence
stress
Rhythm
Melody
Stress
Pause
Rhythm
Temp
Timbre
Intensity
Stress
Pause
Timbre
Melody
Temp
Considering above mentioned components intonation can be divided into the
following types in all three languages.
Types of intonation
English
Rising
Falling
Uzbek
Finished Unfinished
Declara
tive
Interroga
tive
Impera
tive
Emphatic Numeration
Russian
Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
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Besides the two basic types of intonation.Other
main types of intonation
include
high fall, low fall, fall-rise, high-rise, midlevel rise, low rise,
which is
not classified in the other two languages.
Falling intonation is used for asking and giving information in normal, quiet,
unemphatic style.
Sounds more categorical, confident and convincing than rising
intonation.
Standard patterns:
In all compared languages, falling intonation is
used on the last stressed
syllable of the sentence in:
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