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 ...

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 ...

Amye Warren-Leubecker, John Neil Bohannon III, Intonation Patterns in Child-Directed Speech: Mother-Father Differences, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1984 ...

In the third trimester of pregnancy, when the infant’s ears are sufficiently developed, the intonation patterns of the mother’s speech are transmitted through the fluids in the womb.

Influential leaders that build trust and authority among their teams often do so by using intonation patterns, aka placing rising and falling vocal arcs in the right places to juxtapose pivotal ideas.

In the third trimester of pregnancy, when the infant's ears are sufficiently developed, the intonation patterns of the mother's speech are transmitted through the fluids in the womb.

Babies first learn to recognize the rhythm and intonation of language. The process begins in the womb, where the intonation patterns are transmitted to the baby through the fluids.

These are examples of prosody, the intonation pattern we use in language to give an added boost to our communication.

In previous work, Professor Friederici's research team found evidence that the intonation patterns of the respective mother tongue are already ingrained in the brains of four-month-old babies.

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...