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Getting started with Spanish 1
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8 The intonation of questions

In Spanish, questions do not require any changes in form or word order. A statement “Eres Javier” (‘You are Javier’) changes into a question either in writing by adding both initial (¿) and final (?) question marks or in speech by changing to an interrogative intonation.

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Figure _unit3.9.1 Figure 3 Asking questions in Spanish
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Statement: Voice initially goes up, then goes down gradually. Eres Manolo. You are Manolo. A line goes up to Eres, peaks there and then goes down.

Yes-no question: Voice initially goes up, then down, then up again at the end. ¿Eres Manolo? Are you Manolo? A line goes up to Eres, peaks there, goes down up to the syllable –no- in Manolo, and then goes up again sharply to the end of the question.

Figure 3 Asking questions in Spanish

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