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 a ...

A Radboud University study found that adult language learners often transfer both intonation and head gestures from their ...

This activity demonstrates the importance of tone in reading to convey various emotions. This activity focuses on the importance of tone in reading. The adult reads some pages of a book, changing the ...

This week's question comes from Ricky in Xi'an who wants to know more about intonation in English. As he points out, intonation is different from pronunciation, and is an important part of learning to ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. You can also use a falling intonation in your question tags when you think you know the answer, but you want to check. For example: Ruby's going to ...