PITCH CONTOUR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Rise and fall of the voice pitch

Synonyms:

intonation; modulation; pitch contour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pitch contour" is a kind of...):

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitch contour"):

intonation pattern (intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements)

drone; droning; monotone (an unchanging intonation)

singsong (a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation)