This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance
languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the …

Until recently, research on im/politeness has primarily focused on the role of linguistic
strategies while neglecting the contributions of prosody and acoustic cues for …

This chapter looks at how (Im) politeness is communicated through non-verbal means,
including prosody and gesture. Brown and Prieto show that multiple acoustic features …

Research in the past few decades has claimed that high or rising fundamental frequency
(F0) signals a set of meanings related to the expression of politeness (eg, deference …

When annotating a speech signal using an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation,
transcribers associate portions of the F 0 contour with labels from a finite inventory of tonal …

Social meaning is not conveyed through words alone, but also through how words are
produced phonetically. This paper investigates the role of loudness and pitch in determining …

Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and
intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors …

Although linguistic politeness has been studied and theorized about extensively, the role of
prosody in the perception of (im) polite attitudes has been somewhat neglected. In the …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …

Politeness relies on interlocutors' frames, which are cognitive concepts that include a
linguistic expression and extralinguistic variables. Politeness research has highlighted the …