TY - JOUR T1 - Intonation of English and Kazakh Languages AU - Danel, Karagoishiyeva AU - Saule, Bektemirova AU - Gulnaz, Iskakova JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 19 SP - 4660 EP - 4671 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.4660.4671 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.4660.4671 KW - Intonation KW -communicative types KW -the English and Kazakh languages KW -PRAAT programme KW -sentence KW -pitch of voice KW -prosody AB - This study examines the intonation of English and Kazakh declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative statements. An overview and comparison is given of the theoretical research on intonation in English and Kazakh. More practically, similarities and differences between these languages are shown. Language is a tool of communication where intonation plays a vital role in expressing the emotions and state of the addresser of a message. Without an intonation it would be hard to distinguish the type of the sentence uttered by a speaker. The peculiarities of the intonation patterns of a definite language are clearly displayed if a comparative study is carried out with the attraction of the intonation of a foreign language. This article examines the intonation of English and Kazakh declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative statements. An overview and comparison are given of the theoretical research on intonation in English and Kazakh. More practically, similarities and differences between these languages are shown. The results of the experiment are taken with the help of the research on the programme PRAAT. ER -