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===Intonation===
===Intonation===
A stressed short vowel has a high pitch; a stressed long vowel or diphthong has a falling pitch but ends in a higher pitch than unstressed vowels; unstressed vowels have low pitch. Pitch drops at the end of a sentence.
====Word level====
*A stressed short vowel has a high pitch.
*A stressed long vowel or diphthong has a falling pitch but ends in a higher pitch than unstressed vowels.
*Unstressed vowels have low pitch.  
====Clause level====
*Pitch drops at the end of a sentence.
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*neutral: level intonation
*neutral: level intonation
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