I could be wrong here, but it seems to me that a common aspect amongst all languages is the tendency to raise the pitch of your voice slightly when asking a question. Especially at the end of a question sentence.
If I’m wrong about this raised pitch being common amongst all languages, at the very least do all languages change their tone slightly to indicate that a question is being asked?
I guess there needs to be some way to indicate what is and isn’t a question. Perhaps a higher pitched voice reflects uncertainty. Is this something deep rooted in humans, or just an arbitrary choice when language developed?
Yes. That’s a major component of the “valley girl” accent.
Nah I lived with a woman in Burbank. Not my scene. Out of all the people in the LA suburbs I met whom I didn’t like, that annoying valley girl accent never came up.
What about the ones you did like?
People are amazing at dinnertime.
When you say you “had friends for dinner” …
So that movie Coherence except your character got annoyed and left early so they had no clue of the shenanigans, and slept well.