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convey
communicate; express
emphasize
Give special importance to
utterance
Spoken words or statements
pragmatic
Realistic and practical
inflection
tone change
modulate
vary pitch
intonation
rise and fall of the voice in speech
cadence
informal conversational language
phonological
subtle shade of meaning or expression
nuance
prosody
resonating or echoing sound
accentuate
relating to consonant sounds
suprasegmental
omission of sounds in speech
semantic
Related to meaning
disambiguation
clarification of meaning
contour
outline or shape
interrogative
question form
declarative
statement form
disambiguate
clarify meaning
circumflex
accent mark (^)