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pitch contour

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Noun1.pitch contour - rise and fall of the voice pitchpitch contour - rise and fall of the voice pitch    
prosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
intonation pattern - intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
droning, monotone, drone - an unchanging intonation
singsong - a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation


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Unfortunately, without the ability to extract the periodicity of the waveforms, the pitch contour of a complex-tone melody is extraordinarily muddled [12].
This suggests that alignment differences between dialects are not a global property of the pitch contour but are specific to particular pitch accents.
For the sake of clarity, let's use the following layman's definitions for these basic terms: Motive--Shortest musical idea, often identified by a distinctive rhythm and sometimes a general pitch contour.
 
 
 
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