The human being not only communicates through what he says, but also through the way he says it. That is, a person can give a concrete expressiveness to the tone of his voice, to the appropriate modulation of intonation in the context of a conversation. A person can give one intonation or another depending on the context.
For example, faced with an unexpected event, you can give your message a surprising intonation. In the same way, the intonation of a question is different from that requiring an exclamation.
When we enunciate, the intonation rises to the first stressed syllable, and then remains almost at the same height and lower from the last stressed syllable, subjectively. If several phonic groups are distinguished in the statement (each phonic group is distinguished as it develops between pauses), they all raise the pitch from its final syllable, except for the last one, where the pitch falls from the last stressed syllable. Something similar happens in the exclamation but with a level higher.
In the work context, giving the appropriate intonation to a speech to speak in public during a presentation can be decisive to avoid boredomin the audience. Giving a correct intonation to a message improves attention on the part of the interlocutor and also improves understanding. Since then, a monotonous tone of voice has produced boredom.
Intonation shows the variation of pitch and pitch in oral conversation. Intonation is one of the factors that differentiates oral communication from written communication.
Intonation plays a fundamental role in the naturalness of the voice, understood as an element of suprasegmental information.
High tones are generally associated with emotional and severe moods with depressive situations. The increase in tone is used to awaken the interest of the interlocutor, which explains that the tonal increase characterizes unfinished statements, questions, affective expressions. On the contrary, the decrease in tone marks the end of the affirmative statement (descending tone), since it is not necessary to maintain the interest and attention of the listener.
It could be said that each speaker has his own tone; The pronunciation characteristics of each individual vary according to their humor and pronunciation habits. People's hearing is very sensitive to tonal characteristics, such that people can be identified by their pronunciation characteristics. The intonation also has its own physiognomy in each region. Therefore, peculiar pronunciation habits are given to what are called accents; for example, you can distinguish the accents of an Aragonese, a Galician, a Catalan, an Argentine, among others.
The set of tones, that form the melodic line or the intonation, acquires significant linguistic values. It is one of the main linguistic characteristics of the sentence and makes it possible for the words that make up the sentence to acquire value as a unit of expressive meaning.
