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Lastly, a syllable may have increased or diminished height-of tone, pitch: cf. the so-called 'rising inflection' at the end of a question. Now, in spoken language, there are infinite degrees of length, of stress, of pitch.... "It is a well-known property of human speech that it keeps up a ceaseless change between accented and unaccented syllables.

Bliss Perry - A Study of Poetry