Talk:Intonation (linguistics)

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Can anyone expand on the explanation of the notation that can be used to record intonation (IPA or otherwise)? 128.12.20.195 04:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

The claim that Chickashaw uses rises for statements and falls for questions should perhaps be accompanied by a reference (Gussenhoven?) since there is no mention of this on the links to Chickashaw language and this is not a widely known fact. DanielHirst 12:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

A possible ref would be Matthew Gordon of UC Santa Barbara, but I don't have anything available offhand and it's way past my bed time. kwami 13:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 "diagonal arrow" symbols 2 Hungarian intonation 3 Rise and fall 4 Merge

[edit] "diagonal arrow" symbols

The two "diagonal arrow" symbols both appear as the same white square (empty box) symbol on my screen. I'm using IE 7, with pretty standard settings.

Sadly, IE isn't good at font substitution. It works fine in Firefox. If you figure out what fonts they appears in, we can wrap the arrows in <span> tags that force one of those fonts … Ruakh 14:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hungarian intonation

Random trivia: In Hungarian, you make a yes/no question by making the last two syllables rise and fall--"ment a vonat" means the train has left; intoned "ment a VOnat" it asks, has the train left?

[edit] Rise and fall

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal, "most sentences using a Wh-interrogative rise and then fall at the end." 69.210.78.205 06:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Shouldn't this article be merged with Tone (linguistics)? The concepts are virtually the same. Rsazevedo ^msg 16:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

No. They are completely different concepts. This would be like merging vowel and formant. kwami (talk) 17:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, the articles certainly don't convey that difference in the concepts. They definitely need reworking then. Rsazevedo ^msg 17:41, 11 April 2008 (UTC)