Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Acoustic analyses of voice pitch
Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa [+]
University of Iowa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa is Assistant Professor of Japanese sociolinguistics teaching in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa. She is a former student of Robin Lakoff and Yoko Hasegawa at the University of California, Berkeley where she received her doctoral degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures
Description
This chapter includes a review of most investigations conducted thus far in Japan and the US. The review will be divided into two sections: a section describing studies conducted prior to 1980, followed by a section describing those performed after 1980.The focus is on the investigations of the voice pitch of relatively young adult men and women.