0 the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking, especially when this has an effect on the meaning of what is said -- （尤指對話語意義有影響的）語調，聲調
They also tend to engage in ' secondary baby talk ' in which their sentence structure is simplified, volume is raised, and exaggerated intonations and facial expressions used.
The assurance that he gave, with magnificent intonations of sincerity, was that the period allowed would be long enough by "reasonable judgment".
There were certain mannerisms and intonations which seemed familiar to me.
The intonations are not always the same.
In contrast, the human anterior cingulate cortex is responsible for the control of prosody and intonation and for the coordination between speech and emotional content.
Thus, tone languages do not generally have complex intonation systems.
Intonation is a central concern for interactive spoken language systems for both recognition and synthesis of effective dialogues.
Chafe 1994 ties prosodic phenomena such as types of intonation contour to cognitive processes taking place during verbalization.
