intonation

His personality is conveyed through the different intonations in which he delivers his name.

So every weekend we had a Zoom and taught her the rhythm, intonation, subtext.

Melodic intonation therapy, for instance, is a promising approach to train people with aphasia to sing what they want to say, using their intact "musical mechanisms" to bypass damaged speech mechanisms.

But Palumbo, one of opera’s most mild-mannered yet most unrelenting perfectionists, was still making sure that the singers’ intonation was flawless, still fine-tuning the placement of the first note in a certain phrase.

Occasional glitches — a mispronounced word, a missing intonation — were mostly imperceptible.