(n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
(n.) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.
(n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
(2) This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech addressed to adults.
(3) This paper reports the results of an inquiry into the question of category versus continuum in intonation.
(4) Jargon incorporated familiar intonational contours and prosodic features to convey emotional states and communicative functions.
(5) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(6) They also started wearing pinstripe suits and dark glasses, and intoning lines from the film.
(7) They also spend excessive time in making unusual sounds consisting of a high-pitched shrill cry with little intonation in infancy and a harsh, strained, and glottal stridency in later life.
(8) Presentation of the fundamental frequency only generally led to improved perception of features associated with it (voicing and intonation).
(9) This study investigated the possibility that the reported success of agrammatic aphasic patients in performing auditory grammaticality judgments results from their use of intonational cues to sentence well-formedness.
(10) These productions varied with location of contrastive stress, type of sentence intonation, and use of TSV.
(11) The aphasic patients' performance was slightly worse for both signal-processed conditions, but there was little apparent effect of removing sentence intonation on their ability to judge sentence grammaticality.
(12) Ss were presented with lists of 16 words, each word spoken in one of four intonations.
(13) The hearing-impaired subjects produced four different types of deviant intonation contours.
(14) Two experiments were conducted to explore the effectiveness of a single vibrotactile stimulator to convey intonation (question versus statement) and contrastive stress (on one of the first three words of four 4- or 5-word sentences).
(15) That's as it should be, since the state (not the "taxpayer" as the media constantly intones) currently owns 81% and 39% of RBS and Lloyds TSB respectively.
(16) The slope of the intonational grid lines depends at least on sentence type (statement or question), sentence length, and tone pattern.
(17) In experiment 2 the processing was used to separate voiced sentences spoken with time-varying intonation.
(18) This suggests that other variables, not measured in this study, play an important role in the perception of utterance final intonation contours in the speech of the deaf.
(19) But Tuesday's publication of the serious case review into Daniel's death was the cue for a series of senior public sector managers to troop through the nation's television studios and intone piously that "lessons will be learned".
(20) Although there was an overall decrement in intelligibility with increasing compression, sentences heard in normal intonation were significantly better able to withstand the debilitating effects of compression than those with anomalous intonation.
Modulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
(n.) Sound modulated; melody.
(n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(3) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
(6) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(7) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
(8) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(9) This study examines the role of sex hormones in modulating the expression of autoimmunity in NZB x NZW F1 mice.
(10) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(11) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
(12) Furthermore, modulation of the assay by prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) was used to increase its sensitivity.
(13) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(14) From these results, BM-Eo are naive and seem to be a good indicator for eosinophilotaxis and its modulation.
(15) Administration of modulators in combinations of threes resulted in still further reduction of tumor incidences to 22.2% (SS + MC + AA), 19.2% (SS + MC + RA), 16% (MC + AA + RA) and 23.1% (AA + RA + SS).
(16) These findings suggest that activation of protein kinase C may act as a feedback inhibitor to modulate ligand-mediated increases in [Ca2+]i.
(17) These studies demonstrate that vWF interaction with GP Ib may be modulated by botrocetin binding to a discontinuous site located within residues 539-643.
(18) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
(19) Thus, it appears that the modulation of the phosphorylation of these cytosolic proteins represents an essential step in the regulation of T lymphocyte activation.
(20) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.