intonation pattern

noun

1. linguistics a characteristic series of musical pitch levels that serves to distinguish between questions, statements, and other types of utterance in a language

Example Sentences

But there's another equally hated speech feature that is achieved at the other end: the high-rising terminal intonation pattern, or "uptalk."

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“The thing that is remarkable is that they both have this intonation pattern,’’ he said.

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