intonation

IPA: ɪntʌnˈeɪʃʌn

(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.

Examples of "intonation" in Sentences

Anything sing-song falls into this category, such as the calling intonation of 'Come and ge-et it'.
My name is not that strange, but if the intonation is Swedish most people just can not make out the syllables.
Example e) is valid as speech; its comma indicates the difference in intonation and the pause between preposition and adverb that I mentioned above, and the pronunciation difference (/u/and schwa) may also be heard.
There is a difference in intonation between a) and b), and in b) there is a lengthening of the on, possibly a different pronunciation of the to (/u/in a) and schwa in b)), and maybe a slight pause between on and to.
The word for Lord is "chop" and the word for pig is "choooo," and the Chinese missionary made a mistake in intonation with the result that a cartoon appeared showing a man bowing down before a pig which had been nailed upon a cross.