While intonation in English definitely affects how its words sound, it is not as extreme as tones in Mandarin, for example. In Mandarin, there are four tones that are used, which means if you mess up ...

The clip we heard came from an episode of Real Easy English about teachers - listen to the whole programme.

When humans talk to dogs, the canine brains seem to separate the meaning of the words from the intonation used and to analyze each aspect independently.

This article proposes a syntax and a semantics for intonation in English and some related languages. The semantics is 'surface-compositional', in the sense that syntactic derivation constructs ...

Nancy Backman, Intonation Errors in Second-Language Pronunciation of Eight Spanish-Speaking Adults Learning English, Interlanguage Studies Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1979), pp. 239-265 ...

Oto, a startup spun off from research at SRI International to help customer service operations understand voice intonation, announced a $5.3 million seed ...