The Impact of Intonational Changes on Male and Female Teenagers’ Inferencing and Listening Comprehension

Leila Barati; Morteza Bakhtiarvand

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The Impact of Intonational Changes on Male and Female Teenagers’ Inferencing and Listening Comprehension

Leila Barati, Morteza Bakhtiarvand

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 5 October 2015 Accepted: 15 October 2015 Published: 28 October 2015

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Abstract

According to Buck (2003), in the listening comprehension the input in the form of sounds and intonational clues often conveys additional information. This paper considers the impact of intotational (falling and rising) changes on children language acquisition and children's linguistic experiences as an important factor that assists in the emerging social and emotional development of the children’s inferencing. During the study two fiction and non-fiction passages were read to participants in experimental and control groups respectively and accordingly participants have different comprehension ability.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20150306.18
Page(s)	367-371
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2015. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Intonation, Inferencing, Infants, Competence, Context

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Leila Barati

Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Department of Linguistics, Isfahan, Iran
Morteza Bakhtiarvand

Allameh Tabatabai University, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Tehran, Iran

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