rs to transfer their real intentions or deliver information or messages effectively and precisely is always the signal of topic-shift or turning point of sentence meaning in an utterance. plete mastery of the intonation ofone language is the key to understanding speakers' real intentions in an munication. However, unfortunately, although English is the most widely used and studied language all over the world, the systematic study of its soul — English intonation — is normally ignored by large numbers of EFL (which is short for English asa Foreign Language) learners. For a very long time, they, the EFL learners, simply regard English intonation asa syntactic sentence type. Here take the rising tone in English intonation for example. When we use a rising tone ina sentence, most people prefer
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