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The Linguistic Mystery of Tonal Languages - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "People don't generally speak in a monotone. Even someone who couldn't carry a tune if it had a handle on it uses a different melody to ask a question than to make a statement, and in a sentence like "It was the first time I had even been there," says "been" on a higher pitch than the rest of the words."
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