intonationbased
Intonationbased is an adjective used in linguistics and related fields to describe methods, analyses, or communication practices that rely primarily on intonation—the pitch contour of spoken language—to convey meaning, function, or affect. The term emphasizes prosodic rather than segmental cues, though it often cooccurs with lexical and grammatical information.
In linguistic typology, intonationbased approaches study how pitch patterns signal discourse structure, modality, focus, or illocutionary
In technology and data science, intonationbased models or analyses extract features from pitch (F0), duration, and
Challenges include cross-linguistic variation in how robustly intonation encodes meaning, speaker differences, and the difficulty of