Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?

Today@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Russian does, because the rising intonation is the only thing that differentiates a statement from a question in many cases. Eg “You a good driver.” Vs “You a good driver?”

  Vietnamese doesn’t really rise at the end of the question unless that’s the way the last word is anyway. Some questions end with a low sound. Some questions are evident by a small word cluster (sounds like “Fai La”) after the subject but before the object that basically mean “this is a question and not a statement.” Or “I’m asking not telling”

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