
An Acoustic Comparison of Falling Intonation Patterns of Rural and Urban English Language Learners : A Case Study of Faisalabad
*Haider Ali (12541) * Hafiz Bilal (14999)
****BS English Literature and
Language, Department of English, Riphah International University Faisalabad.
Abstract:
The falling intonation pattern is used for when speakers are
giving information or making observations. Secondly, the speaker is used for
asking information questions. The purpose of this study is to compare the
falling intonation pattern of urban and rural language learners of Faisalabad,
and then compared with the British accent. In this research, the data collected
from the strata of the urban and rural learners of Faisalabad region. Each
stratum has a total 10 participants and total participants are 25 in which five
are British Language Learners sampling.
Learners ranging in age from 13-18 year...