Intonation may refer to:
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Intonation (linguistics)
In linguistics, intonation is variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse. For exa ...
, variation of speaking pitch that is not used to distinguish words
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Intonation (music)
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously.
In vocal music, intonation also signifies the singing of an opening phrase.
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, a musician's realization of pitch accuracy, or the pitch accuracy of a musical instrument
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Intonation Music Festival, a summer music festival in Chicago
See also
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Intonation unit
In linguistics, a prosodic unit, often called an intonation unit or intonational phrase, is a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour ( pitch and rhythm contour). The abbreviation IU is used and therefore the full form is o ...
, a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
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Tone (disambiguation)
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