the language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. in order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. for this purpose, a comparison between men’s and women’s informal language was made regarding length of utterances, questions, intensifiers, and hedges. results revealed that men employed highe...

the present study provides an analysis of the correlation between acoustic properties, duration and pitch amplitude of speech associated with three basic emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference, emotionally expressed by six persian speakers. rise/fall connection model (taylor, 1995) is used to analyze acoustic parameters and measure how an utterance is modulated when ...