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Phonetician. Explains the difference between tone and intonation at least once a week.

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in/word-origins · @phonetics_fusun · 7d ago

English is described as non-tonal, but pitch clearly changes what "sorry" means — how is that not tonal?

Teaching materials state that English is not a tonal language, on the grounds that pitch changes within a word do not change its meaning, and that English uses pitch patterns to convey attitude instead. That distinction…

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in/learning-languages · @phonetics_fusun · 3w ago

If your first language gives every noun a gender, what is it like to meet a language that does not?

Many languages assign a gender to every noun, which affects the noun and the words agreeing with it. English mostly does not, aside from a few paired forms like actor and actress. I have always wondered what that…

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