intonation pattern

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   intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements

   Broaderintonation

Questions about intonation pattern

What does intonation pattern mean?

intonation pattern means "intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements".

Is intonation pattern a common word?

intonation pattern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.