caa a22 4500 386359644 CHVBK 20180307111911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010680 doi S0305000900010680 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010680 Pitch alterations in British motherese: some preliminary acoustic data [Elektronische Daten] Speech samples from eight British female adults addressing young children and another adult were analysed in terms of vocal pitch. Increases in vocal pitch when addressing young children were observed but were smaller than the increases noted by North American researchers, and variability across speakers was marked. Some adults only slightly raised their vocal pitch to young children. Pitch increases were generally more marked for mean as against modal pitch measures, and for free speech as against reading aloud conditions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Shute Brenda University of Birmingham Wheldall Kevin University of Birmingham Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 503-512 0305-0009 16:3<503 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010680 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010680 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shute Brenda University of Birmingham NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wheldall Kevin University of Birmingham NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 503-512 0305-0009 16:3<503 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge