noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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pattern
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Tonal languages also have intonation patterns which may override the basic tone of the words.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And with a faintly questioning intonation that fitzAlan would have to be deaf to miss.
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As usual in intonation work in this book, punctuation is left out, since it can cause confusion.
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For example Practice the intonation of the model exchange.
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The technique of back chaining may be referred to in the teaching of intonation .
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There is more dicey woodwind intonation in the Eroica, and the oboe tone in the Funeral March curdles alarmingly.
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They speak courteously, but in a strangely mechanical way, with a flat intonation .
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This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard because it varies the intonation and doesn't speak like a Dalek.