interrogative accent

English

Noun

interrogative accent (countable and uncountable, plural interrogative accents)

  1. (phonetics, prosody) A pitch configuration associated with an utterance's interrogative function, realized through tonal prominence on particular syllables, an intonational contour across a phrase, or a combination of the two.
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