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Rethinking the frequency code : a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena ...
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The widely cited frequency code hypothesis attempts to explain a diverse range of communicative phenomena through the acoustic projection of body size. The set of phenomena includes size sound symbolism (using /i/ to signal smallness in words such as teeny), intonational phonology (using rising contours to signal questions) and the indexing of social relations via vocal modulation, such as lowering one's voice pitch to signal dominance. Among other things, the frequency code is commonly interpreted to suggest that polite speech should be universally signalled via high pitch owing to the association of high pitch with small size and submissiveness. We present a cross-cultural meta-analysis of polite speech of 101 speakers from seven different languages. While we find evidence for cross-cultural variation, voice pitch is on average lower when speakers speak politely, contrary to what the frequency code predicts. We interpret our findings in the light of the fact that pitch has a multiplicity of possible ...
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400 Sprache und Linguistik; Intonation; Pitch; Politeness; Prosody; Sound symbolism; Vocal dominance
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URL: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/24261 https://dx.doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24261
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Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills ...
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Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena
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In: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2021)
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Gestural and Prosodic Development Act as Sister Systems and Jointly Pave the Way for Children’s Sociopragmatic Development
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Preschoolers' pragmatic development: how prosody and gesture lend a helping hand
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2018)
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Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
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In: ISSN: 0142-7237 ; First Language ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01470228 ; First Language, SAGE Publications, 2017, 37 (1), pp.24-41 (2017)
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Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
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Three-year-olds infer polite stance from intonation and facial cues
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Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
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Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance
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Young children's sensitivity to polite stance expressed through audiovisual prosody in requests
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Gestural and prosodic development act as sister systems and jointly pave the way for children’s sociopragmatic development
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