Stress and Intonation

STRESS AND INTONATION

What is stress?

It gives particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing.Stress is typically signaled by such properties as increased loudness and vowel length, full articulation of the vowel, and changes in pitch.

What is intonation?

It is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the difference between statements and questions, and between different types of questions, focusing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction.

• Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice rises over time 
• Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls with time 
• Dipping or Fall-rise Intonation falls and then rises 
• Peaking or Rise-fall Intonation rises and then falls