Nina's mom has been warning her about the danger of playing with her balloon near a burning candle. Suddenly, the balloon hits the flame and explodes. Nina's mom looks at her and says, "I hope that you are happy," but because of the tone of her voice, her mom is really saying, "See, I told you to watch out!" This use of tone to change the meaning of a sentence provides a good example of the concept of

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The use of tone to change the meaning of a sentence is an example of prosody, which refers to the rhythm, intonation, and stress of speech. The other options are not relevant to this concept. Word segmentation refers to the ability to divide a stream of speech sounds into individual words. Syntactic bootstrapping refers to the process of using knowledge of grammar to learn the meaning of new words. Overregulation refers to the overgeneralization or misuse of grammatical rules.

Nina's Mom Has Been Warning Her About the Danger of Playing