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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
Peer reviewedHieke, Adolf E. – Language and Speech, 1981
Shows that hesitation phenomena are intricately connected with propspective and retrospective speech production tasks and mark critical points in processing. Two major hesitation categories exist: stalls and repairs. Stalls head off errors and represent error-free output; repairs take care of errors already committed. English and German examples…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), German, Language Processing
Peer reviewedTerrell, Francis – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, English
