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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0314 – Circumflex Intonation
Description: 2021.11.10 – 0314 – Circumflex IntonationBut the human voice is capable of much more intonational gymnastics! Within some words we can go down … and then up and then down again. Or up, down, and up again. And these intonation alterations give additional clues to the listener as to what we mean.Down > up > down ( ) This is often a sneery tone, or used to signify uncertainty. · “I don’t think you doooo!”Up > down > up ( ) Suggests that we haven’t finished talking , or us used at the start of a contrast· “I’m not going to...