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ELI5: If tonal languages use different pitches of the same phoneme to mean different words, how does that affect emotion or other forms of context in speech?

English speakers often use a rising intonation at the end of a sentence to indicate that they're asking a question. In English, tone is also used to convey other emotions or contexts, like sarcasm.

But in tonal languages like Mandarin, tone/pitch often changes the dictionary meaning of a word. Given that, how do speakers of a tonal language indicate emotions in speech if using a different pitch or tone drastically changes what they say?
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The term ‘tone’ is a little misleading- there’s still very much a different tone of voice no matter what you’re saying- watch a movie in Chinese and you’ll be able to tell their emotions based on the tone of their voice.