How do you vary your voice when you're in a business setting? In this lesson of Business English you learn about intonation in English language conversations, the types of intonation and why it is ...

Why is intonation important and how does it help in communication? Listen to Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland talk about the different ways of saying hello. ABC ...

A question tag is when we turn a statement into a question by adding a tag at the end. For example, You're going to the ...

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 ...

Hello and welcome to How To, the programme from BBC Learning English where we help you to help yourselves in some everyday situations. My name's William Kremer. Now, when you're in English class, are ...

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 ...

In Brazil’s (1985, 1997) discoursee intonation model, the level tone is used by speakers to make choices that do not have any real communicative significance within the context of interaction.