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Relative contributions of the two sources of politeness, namely
sentence final particle and overall intonation contour, were
measured with a paired-comparison procedure, using three distinct
age groups of Kumamoto Japanese as subjects.
Application of ANOVA revealed that the effects of the two
factors were highly significant, making statistically independent
contributions to the perception of politeness. At the same time,
an age-related difference of perception was found out: younger
subjects tend to rely more upon intonation than the particle,
whereas middle-aged subjects rely more upon the particle. This
is most presumably due to an ongoing linguistic change of the
particle system in the material language. Finally, a mechanism
for the perception of intonational politeness is presented.
Bibliographic reference. Maekawa, Kikuo (1999): "Contributions of lexical and prosodic factors to the perception of Politeness", In ICPhS-14, 1573-1576.