Gender Difference in English Intonation
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چکیده
This paper discusses the gender difference in the English intonation patterns used by native speakers of English from sociophonetic and functional perspectives with a preliminary corpus-based experimental study. The main purpose of this research is to dig out the possible reasons of gender difference in intonation usage with social and cultural impacts. The research isolates gender as the major sociophonetic variant to conduct the experiment and discussion. The writer hopes that the study of gender patterns of English intonation will trigger non-native learners of English to make appropriate understanding and use the different discourse functions of English intonation to better realize their communication goals.
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