Sparky Witte

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When you ask someone a question, your voice naturally rises in intonation at the end of the sentence, signaling that you are asking. But you don’t try to make the rise in your voice match a specific pitch. It is enough that you end the sentence somewhat higher in pitch than you began it. This is a convention in English (though not in all languages—we have to learn it), and is known in linguistics as a prosodic cue.
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