FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES
3 FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES
TONE: Tone is the change in the pitch of the voice.
The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then, it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables.
In the rising tone, the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables.
STATEMENTS
We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which you are sure about what you are saying we use the falling tone.
Example: I liked it very ↓ much. She’s ↓ill. She’s quite ↓ pretty.
Exceptions: If we want to make statements more friendly, soothing and encouraging, we use the rising tone.
Example: But you’ve done ↑well.
Don’t ↑ worry .I’ll be ↑ back soon.
WH-QUESTIONS
Wh-questions are normally spoken in the falling tone. Questions, normally do not sound very friendly.
Examples: What do you ↓ want? Where do you ↓live? How do you ↓ do it?
Exceptions: If we want to make Wh-questions sound friendly, and to show interest and concern, we can use the rising tone.
Examples: Why are you ↑crying. How is your ↑ father. How can I ↑ help you. Which doctor is ↑ treating you.
COMMANDS
Commands are usually spoken in the falling tone. Falling tone is used for strong commands, and they sound rather rude and impolite.
Example: Don’t be a damn ↓ fool ! Stop ↓ grumbling !
Exceptions: 1. If we want to make our commands polite and more like pleading, we can use the rising tone.
Example: ↑ Sit down. Turn down the ↑ music. Write as soon as you ↑can.
2. Another way to make the commands more polite is by adding certain tags such as ‘will you/shall we?’ and use the rising tone.
Examples: Come back at ↓ once, ↑ will you? Post this ↓
TONE: Tone is the change in the pitch of the voice.
The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then, it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables.
In the rising tone, the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables.
STATEMENTS
We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which you are sure about what you are saying we use the falling tone.
Example: I liked it very ↓ much. She’s ↓ill. She’s quite ↓ pretty.
Exceptions: If we want to make statements more friendly, soothing and encouraging, we use the rising tone.
Example: But you’ve done ↑well.
Don’t ↑ worry .I’ll be ↑ back soon.
WH-QUESTIONS
Wh-questions are normally spoken in the falling tone. Questions, normally do not sound very friendly.
Examples: What do you ↓ want? Where do you ↓live? How do you ↓ do it?
Exceptions: If we want to make Wh-questions sound friendly, and to show interest and concern, we can use the rising tone.
Examples: Why are you ↑crying. How is your ↑ father. How can I ↑ help you. Which doctor is ↑ treating you.
COMMANDS
Commands are usually spoken in the falling tone. Falling tone is used for strong commands, and they sound rather rude and impolite.
Example: Don’t be a damn ↓ fool ! Stop ↓ grumbling !
Exceptions: 1. If we want to make our commands polite and more like pleading, we can use the rising tone.
Example: ↑ Sit down. Turn down the ↑ music. Write as soon as you ↑can.
2. Another way to make the commands more polite is by adding certain tags such as ‘will you/shall we?’ and use the rising tone.
Examples: Come back at ↓ once, ↑ will you? Post this ↓