Children's Comprehension of Intonation as a Marker for Discourse Topic Collaboration.

Holdgrafer, Gary; Campbell, Thomas F.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Children's Comprehension of Intonation as a Marker for Discourse Topic Collaboration.

Holdgrafer, Gary; Campbell, Thomas F.

Applied Psycholinguistics, v7 n4 p373-84 Dec 1986

When second, fourth, and sixth grade students were asked "What's this?" questions (differing in intonation and stress) and guessed whether there were new or different objects pictured on cards, results indicated that use of intonation was recognized as a marker for topic collaboration by grade four. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Children, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6, Interaction, Interviews, Intonation, Psycholinguistics, Questioning Techniques, Research Methodology, Stress (Phonology), Suprasegmentals, Visual Aids

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Language: English

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