lilt
noun[S]
uk/lɪlt/us/lɪlt/agentleandpleasantrisingandfallingsoundin a person'svoice:
(嗓音的)抑扬顿挫He's got thatlovelyIrishlilt in hisvoice.他的嗓音很动听,具有爱尔兰人特有的那种抑扬顿挫。
Ways of speaking
- accented
- accentuation
- bray
- cacoepy
- cut glass
- dialectal
- drawl
- elocution
- enunciate
- flap
- fluent
- jawbreaker
- plummy
- pragmatics
- pronunciation
- prosodic
- prosody
- signer
- sociolect
- toned