A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch and rhythm, known as prosody, to provide emphasis, show emotion, and otherwise add meaning to what they say. But ...

How sign language users learn intonation Date: September 28, 2015 Source: Linguistic Society of America Summary: A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch ...

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 ...

The research analyzed over 650 recordings in 48 languages spanning every continent and 27 language families. Using a novel ...

Intonation is an integral part of communication for all speakers. But can sign languages have intonation? A new study shows that signers use their faces to create intonational ‘melodies’ just ...

A global study of 48 languages shows that human speech follows a steady rhythm, with intonation units occurring every 1.6 ...

Brain scans seem to confirm what pet owners already suspected: Dogs not only comprehend the words we speak, but also how we say them.

A large cross-linguistic study has revealed that human speech worldwide follows a universal rhythm, with intonation units appearing roughly every 1.6 seconds.

If the use of these elements is as bad for the English language as it’s made out to be, then I have bad news about a few thousand other languages. How can we analyze intonation?

A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch and rhythm, known as prosody, to provide emphasis, show emotion, and otherwise add meaning to what they say. In ...