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  2. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences can end with a rising pitch similar to that typically found in yes–no questions. HRT has been claimed to be especially common among younger speakers ...

  3. Canadian raising - Wikipedia

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    Canadian raising (also sometimes known as English diphthong raising[1]) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points. Most commonly, the shift affects / aɪ / ⓘ or / aʊ / ⓘ, or both, when they are pronounced before voiceless ...

  4. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    Wh-questions can be formed in a variety of ways in ASL. The wh-word can appear solely at the end of the sentence, solely at the beginning of the sentence, at both the beginning and end of the sentence (see section 4.4.2.1 on 'double-occurring wh-words', or in situ (i.e. where the wh-word is in the sentence structure before movement occurs)). [58]

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

  6. Words To Use To Get A Big Raise In Pay - AOL

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    Words To Use To Get A Big Raise In Pay. Glassdoor. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:44 PM. pay raise 2013. By Vickie Elmer

  7. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Intonation (linguistics) In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.

  8. Lexical density - Wikipedia

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    Lexical density is a concept in computational linguistics that measures the structure and complexity of human communication in a language. [1] Lexical density estimates the linguistic complexity in a written or spoken composition from the functional words (grammatical units) and content words (lexical units, lexemes).

  9. Raising hands - Wikipedia

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    Raising hands. Raising hands is a gesture involving lifting either one or both arms above one's head, which has a number of possible meanings, depending on the context of the gesture. The action of hand-raising is involved in a number of greeting hand gestures, such as waving, salutes, and high fives. The raised fist, an action used mostly in ...