Intonation vs. Inflection
Intonationnoun
(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
Intonationnoun
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Intonationnoun
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
Intonationnoun
Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
Intonationnoun
A thundering; thunder.
Intonationnoun
A thundering; thunder.
Intonationnoun
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Intonationnoun
The manner of speaking, especially the placement of emphasis, the cadence, and the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice while speaking.
Intonationnoun
rise and fall of the voice pitch
Intonationnoun
singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
Intonationnoun
the act of singing in a monotonous tone
Intonationnoun
the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
Inflectionnoun
(grammar) A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.
Inflectionnoun
A change in pitch or tone of voice.
Inflectionnoun
(mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
Inflectionnoun
A turning away from a straight course.
Inflectionnoun
(optometry) diffraction
Inflectionnoun
The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
Inflectionnoun
A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
Inflectionnoun
A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
Inflectionnoun
The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
Inflectionnoun
Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
Inflectionnoun
Same as Diffraction.
Inflectionnoun
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
Inflectionnoun
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
Inflectionnoun
deviation from a straight or normal course
Inflectionnoun
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation, in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, and one can refer to the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, determiners, participles, prepositions and postpositions, numerals, articles etc., as declension.
