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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 reviewedPoole, Millicent; Field, T. W. – Language and Speech, 1976
Indicates that, in relation to oral systems, written systems are more complex in structure, reveal more adjectival but less adverbial elaboration, show more complex verbal structures, and contain fewer indices of personal reference. (RL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Styles
