Language-specificity in the perception of paralinguistic intonational meaning.
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native langu...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 311 - 350 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2004
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