2024
DOI: 10.1075/prag.23003.bro
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Prosodic features of polite speech

Lucien Brown,
Grace Eunhae Oh,
Kaori Idemaru

Abstract: This paper uses interactional data to investigate the acoustic characteristics of polite or deferential speech in Korean. We asked fourteen Korean speakers to perform two tasks with two different interlocutors: a status superior and a friend. Consistent with previous studies of non-interactional data, deferential speech has lower pitch and shimmer, and quieter final syllables. However, divergent from previous studies, deferential speech featured highe… Show more

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