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=== Intonation=== | === Intonation=== | ||
In the varieties closest to Standard Ăn Yidiș, stressed syllables are pronounced ~1.3 times as long as unstressed ones. Questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is more exaggerated than normal. | In the varieties closest to Standard Ăn Yidiș, stressed syllables are pronounced ~1.3 times as long as unstressed ones. Questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is more exaggerated than normal. | ||
==== Within a prosodic unit ==== | |||
A prosodic unit begins at mid-level pitch and falls linearly to a low pitch right before the stressed component. The intonation of the stressed component depends on the syntactic role of the prosodic unit, but at the end of the sentence it usually falls on the stressed syllable and remains low thereafter. | |||
==== Sentence-level ==== | |||
'''Dě''' | ēfșăr lùm '''ró''' | cdēy ằd-'''thêyằr'''? 'What can I say to describe you?' (the peak of ''cdey ăd-theyăr'' is higher than that of ''efșăr lum ro'') | '''Dě''' | ēfșăr lùm '''ró''' | cdēy ằd-'''thêyằr'''? 'What can I say to describe you?' (the peak of ''cdey ăd-theyăr'' is higher than that of ''efșăr lum ro'') | ||