What does inflection mean?

Answer 1

1. modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
2. Also, flection. Grammar. a. the process or device of adding affixes to or changing the shape of a base to give it a different syntactic function without changing its form class.
b. the paradigm of a word.
c. a single pattern of formation of a paradigm: noun inflection; verb inflection.
d. the change in the shape of a word, generally by affixation, by means of which a change of meaning or relationship to some other word or group of words is indicated.
e. the affix added to produce this change, as the -s in dogs or the -ed in played.
f. the systematic description of such processes in a given language, as in serves from serve, sings from sing, and harder from hard (contrasted with derivation).

3. a bend or angle.
4. Mathematics. a change of curvature from convex to concave or vice versa.

Answer 2

Inflection - Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice. Modulation of the voice. The rise and fall of your voice in 'normal' speech where certain words are stressed for effect (loud/quiet), the voice lifts up at the end of a question or drops in sadness, These are inflections and what make a speech more interesting, rather than speaking in a flat monotone. Practice in front of a mirror, that often helps.

Answer 3

• a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
• prosody: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
• deviation from a straight or normal course
• modulation: a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

Answer 4

It's the way words are said, with particular emphasis on certain syllables.

Answer 5

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