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Publication details [#36548]

Shute, Brenda and Kevin Wheldall. 1989. Pitch alterations in British motherese: Some preliminary acoustic data. Journal of Child Language 16 (3) : 503–512.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | motherese | pitch | sound

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with average pitch levels in British motherese in comparison to vocal pitch in adult-to-adult talk and with individual differences in motherese within the same cultural-linguistic grouping.