A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are said. If it's pouring rain and someone remarks on the "lovely weather," you ...

This paper reports on an acoustic analysis of the intonational patterns of declarative questions and wh-questions produced by a group of young adults residing in a rural town of south-central Spain.

Basically a study saying they tracked intonation units across languages that occurs every 1.6 seconds that help track meaning, taking turns, etc. My thought on reading this is that it seems to operate ...