Sentences with phrase «pitched emotional tone»

The speakers then mixed dog - directed speech with non-dog-related words and adultdirected speech with dog - related words, to allow the researchers to understand whether it was the high - pitched emotional tone of the speech that dogs were attracted to or the words themselves.

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«The slower timing of the right hemisphere may allow us to identify who is speaking, to gauge their emotional state via tone - of - voice and to tease out pitch in music, which is thought to be important for getting groups of people to coordinate their activities and can ultimately lead to the formation of cultures,» Washington says.

And by research, I mean «reading» — reading lots and lots of YA novels to see firsthand and understand the genre conventions, parameters, and ranges of tone, point of view, emotional pitch, and subject matter.