Shifting voices with participant roles: Voice qualities and speech registers in Mesoamerica

Language in Society

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 521-553

  Sicoli, Mark A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77958600208     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404510000436     Document Type: Article

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