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inflection
/ˌɪnˈflɛkʃən/
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What does inflection mean?
noun
- The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class.
- An affix representing a given variation.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- Diffraction.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈflɛkʃən/
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“I assure you I did”--still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children, and Anne especially, hated.
Or who else has so impressed upon us the value of the rising inflection, as a gentler habit of speech?
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“I’m awfully sorry,” he said in a bright, clear voice, with a rising inflection, as if he expected her to say something.
Good talk has so much short-hand that it cannot be reported,--the inflection, the change of voice, the shrug, cannot be caught on paper.
He spoke to her in low tones, and she instinctively modulated her own to the same pitch, and her voice ultimately even caught the inflection of his.