This clip has Arnold asking questions without the rising tone while the kids mostly use the rising tone.
“Who is my daddy and what does he do?” actually seems to drop a little bit.
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PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 month agoCould you give some examples of questions in English that would not be asked with a rising tone at the end?
This clip has Arnold asking questions without the rising tone while the kids mostly use the rising tone.
“Who is my daddy and what does he do?” actually seems to drop a little bit.
I guess in this example, “who is your daddy?” Is the main question, which has a somewhat flat intonation, but contrasted to the emphasis in the second half of the sentence, it feels like a rise
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s your name? How old are you? Where are you from?
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They seem to have a rise-drop, at least when I say them.
“How old are you?” is interesting because the rise is on the third-last word (“old”). But “How old is your daughter?” has the rise in the first syllable of daughter.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s just emphasis. You can tell because you can shift it to another word.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Switching the emphasis on one word can completely change the meaning of a phrase, there’s one example I love: "I never said she stole his money"
Botzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wonder if it’s more because we frame the question by altering the structure to indicate the appropriate response.
We could just as well ask “you are from where?” Or “your name is what?” That matches the expected sentence structure of a response, and the natural pitch rises.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But the default stress towards the end of the question is what makes it a question.
You can move the stress to another word for emphasis on yes-no questions, too, similarly removing the “rising intonation” that makes a question.
E.g., “Do you want any cheese^?” vs. “Do you WANT any cheese?” (Falling intonation after “want”)
PrimeErective@startrek.website 1 month ago
I’m totally with you. I think it is somewhat speaker dependent, but that is how I would say those questions.
What’s your NAme
How OLD (are you)?
Where are you FROm?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Do you really pronounce those with a higher pitch? Or do you pronounce them louder?
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You would never say
"What’s YOUR name?
“How old are YOU?”
“Where ARE you from?”
?