Intonation Contour of Combination of Indonesian Words in Interrogative Sentence with Yes or No Answer Spoken by Autistic Children

摘要

Autistic children produce various utterances. Sometimes, they say sentence consisting of one word or more. This one word or more can be called sentence since it ends with final intonation. In Indonesian language, we have various final intonation such as (.), (!), and (?). One of sentences which is spoken by autistic children is interrogative sentence. One of interrogative sentences uttered by autistic children is sentence which requires short answers such as yes or no. The purpose of this paper was to describe intonation contour of combination of Indonesian Words of Interrogative sentence with yes or no answer spoken by children with autism. The data of this research is combination of words in Indonesian interrogative sentence. The resource of research data is utterance of children with autism. The researcher analyzed the data by using equal method that is phonetic-articulatory method with basic technique of selecting certain element.