Intonation

Summary In theory, the researchers main goal in this study was to establish if there was a correlation in the intonation of someone’s voice and the desire to influence another individual to buy a product or answer a set of questions. How willing are we to just listen to someone based on the pitch or tone of their voice? Our brains don’t have any visual cues to know if we can trust this person or not, so that’s why when companies are trying to sell you something, they should be very particular on who they allow to work the phones. For some, it can make quite a difference on if they buy from you or not. In this experiment the researchers decided to do two studies to determine the results. In study one the researchers first hypothesis was to…

Recently in modern cinema, the dialogue of movies is ripe with text waiting to be analyzed through a linguistic lens. This can be looked at through the intonation of one’s voice, the “sharpness” of the voice, accent, and the lexical markers that they use. All of these metrics can be used to learn a significant amount of information about the character. The fine balance between using horrendous stereotypes and leaving too much up for interpretation is one often walked too far on either side in…

The study by Blythe Lagasse in 2012 is titled, “Evaluation of Melodic Intonation Therapy for Developmental Apraxia of Speech”. As the title states, this study researched Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for children with apraxia. The purpose of the study was to determine the efficacy of MIT for articulation therapy in this specific population. The study compared speech production following 40 minute MIT sessions to speech productions following 40 minute “traditional” therapy sessions.…

Did you know that Black English or African American Venicular Englsih was born by a combination of Africans grammar and what they heard from the White Europeans. Many believe that black english is wrong and it is slang, but in reality the black language is right. Black english is wright because it has its own history, grammar, phonology, lexicon, and intonation. First, I will talk about the history of African American English. African American english is also called Ebonics. Some scholars…

The use of Intonation helps to convey the fear in the character’s voice by showing instability caused by her fear. My Intonation fell on the word ‘forget’ (line 13) and expressed wavering of the character’s voice as she is fearful of her situation. In addition to intonation I also used the feature of raised pitch. This fell naturally on words that were being said in a louder pitch, an example being ‘Hanaaaahh’ (line 11). The character at this point is screaming out the name and therefore the…

Slide 14 In their respective “Instrumentalist” articles, Phillips (1999), Stone (1999) and Crider (1990) discussed the importance of young instrumentalists learning the pitch tendencies of their instrument. Phillips (1999) and Rush (2014) advocated that students be aware of inherently out of tune pitches on their instrument, while Stone (1999) and Crider (1990) recommended that teachers help students create intonation charts. For references purposes, Crider (1990) suggested that students keep…

evidence about the similarities dogs have to humans. The first article is from Newsela: “Study Shows Dogs and Humans Are More Alike than Was Previously Thought" is about how dogs react to human’s words and how. The report says, “...dogs understand both the meaning of words and the intonation used to speak them.” For example, if someone says, “bad dog” to a dog in a happy, kind, and excited tone, it will most likely know that it did something wrong, even though the intonation sounded happy.…

really nice - the intonation was really pretty close, and the tone was very bright. Skipping ahead a little, at 119 the flutes did not really seem to flow together. It wasn’t really an intonation problem this time, but a rhythm issue. They all seemed to know what they were playing but were all playing it at different times and different speeds. They likely were not incredibly comfortable with the section, and it also seemed like they were not watching their conductor in the measure leading up to…

repeated them a few time and I demonstrated how they were pronounced once again, correcting her placement of articulation. Next we worked on word stress. This was a simple listening exercise. Hong was great about this but she said the audio I used went to fast. So we paused after every single one. This was a bit difficult for her to pick out where the stressed was placed. So when I saw her score out on the mini-quiz. I explained how it would sound if it was stressed in other places. Along with…

interesting, and I have learned so much already. One of the main things that made me want to participate in the course is that I want to be a better English teacher. During this course, I got different kinds of inputs, and I find all of them interesting. Some of them made more impact on me, and I want to mention a few. My attention to pronunciation and intonation made me more aware of how I pronounce the words in class. Earlier, I used to read children's books in class thinking my…