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Peer reviewedLoveday, Leo – Language and Speech, 1981
Reports a preliminary investigation into the pitch correlates of politeness formulae produced by English and Japanese informants of both sexes. Because of differences in sociosemiotic function of pitch, Japanese females' pitch is more differentiated from the Japanese male pitch than is that of the English female from the English male. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Intonation, Japanese
