Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa

Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa

Comparative sociophonetic research 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

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This chapter introduces comparative examinations of Japanese and American voice pitch performed by previous researchers. Moreover, it introduces the main investigation of the book, and presents the comparative study performed by the author, which parsed conversational speech data elicited from both Japanese and American speakers.

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Yuasa, Ikuko Patricia. Comparative sociophonetic research of voice pitch. Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 60-90 Dec 2008. ISBN 9781845539061. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=21270. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.21270. Dec 2008

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