An acoustic study on the paralinguistic prosody in the politeness talk in Taiwan Mandarin

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  • Hsin-Yi Lin Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Author
  • Kwock-Ping John Tse College of Foreign Language and Literature, Providence University, Taiwan Author
  • Janice Fon Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Author

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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2006/01/0037/000037

Abstract

The relationship between the interlocutors is known, in Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics, to be influential on speakers’ tone of voice. This study examined this phenomenon from acoustical aspects by measuring the duration and pitch of the dialogues made by pairs of talkers. Shorter word duration is found between strangers’ dialogues and lower pitch register is found in female talkers’ speech to males. The findings indicate that the prosody of talkers indeed varies with their familiarity with hearers and also with hearers’ gender.

 

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01-01-2006

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Vol. 1 (2006): Proceedings of the 1st Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics

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Proceedings Papers

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An acoustic study on the paralinguistic prosody in the politeness talk in Taiwan Mandarin. (2006). Linguistic Proceedings Series, 1(1), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2006/01/0037/000037

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