The intonational phrase is a unit of utterance, possessing an organic prosodic structure, and usually delimited by a pause and a boundary tone, capable of being subdivided into intermediate phrases.

• 摘要语调短语是一个话语单元，它有相对完整的语调和韵律结构，往往有停顿和边界语调标示；它可以再切割成语调次短语。