In many descriptions of English, the following intonation patterns are distinguished:

In a language with contrastive intonation patterns, the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons.

At this stage, infants also produce various stress and intonation patterns.

One easily observable fact about these examples is that they prefer a unique intonation pattern.

Infants continue to use intonation patterns and timing that matches the characteristics of their language.

The intonation pattern suggested that someone else would die.

English tag questions can have a rising or a falling intonation pattern.

Questions may also be indicated by a different intonation pattern.

Rats can distinguish between languages with very different intonation patterns.

Additional analyses of the sentential intonation patterns are needed.