PITCH CONTOUR
Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch contour mean? • PITCH CONTOUR (noun)
The noun PITCH CONTOUR has 1 sense:
1. rise and fall of the voice pitch
Familiarity information: PITCH CONTOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PITCH CONTOUR (noun)
Meaning:
Rise and fall of the voice pitch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
intonation; pitch contour; modulation
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)
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