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Why do we use an upward inflection when asking questions?
I have tried Googling where the upward inflection comes from but all I get are "Valley Girl" results.
My curiosity in this started with my new German Language course I'm taking and noticed that the ...
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What are the different ways prosodic features of a language are represented throughout the history of linguistics?
I can name a few:
1. Tones as numbers
2. Intonation contour as a line above the sentence
3. Tones as lines above segments
4. Stress marks before stress syllables ['white house] vs [white 'house]
But ...
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