Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of ...

Prosody and intonation are fundamental components of spoken language, encompassing rhythm, stress, pitch variation and timing that go beyond mere lexical content. These suprasegmental features not ...

This article proposes a syntax and a semantics for intonation in English and some related languages. The semantics is 'surface-compositional', in the sense that syntactic derivation constructs ...

Scientists have come up with proof that shows dogs not only understand human language, but also know the difference between genuine praise and meaningless words. Study confirms dogs use different ...

In this video, we explore how deaccenting in English intonation signals 'given information.' Various examples illustrate the concept of deaccenting, including iconic phrases like "Bond, James Bond," ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. You can also use a falling intonation in your question tags when you think you know the answer, but you want to check. For example: Ruby's going to ...