Pitch Range is not Pitch Range

This paper presents a phonetic analysis of pitch range as per-ceived and measured on utterance and syllable level. A previ-ous analysis of read speech showed that German speakers produced a larger pitch-range on utterance level, whereas Swiss German speakers produced a larger pitch-range on syl-lable level. This analysis was based on the production of broadcasters reading news messages and a fairytale, both sty-listically very restricted and largely standardized. Therefore, in the present study semi- and spontaneous utterances are ana-lyzed to provide evidence that these findings are cross-linguistic rather than discourse-specific. The evidence was provided by auditory annotation and acoustic measurements