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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Whoever the mom is. My wife was streaming it earlier; I wasn't really watching it.
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OK. It's her.
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Again, she's nothing higher than, say, Paris Hilton, pitch wise. Do you find her voice high in this video also?
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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
And yes, Avril's voice does go higher occasionally when English prosody demands it. But Japanese prosody does not demand a consistently high voice, as regular Japanese girl speech patterns demonstrate. And my conception of "regular Japanese girl" is basically 99% of females I attended university with in Tokyo.
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Well if 99% of females in Tokyo don't affect high voice, maybe they want some exaggerated characters on TV? 小倉優子 is using the girly accent for sure but physically, her pitch isn't that high.
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Dude, that's THE famous Anime voice actress who is known for her supersonic voice. You can't get more Anime than that.
edit: I'm not "denying" the "phenomenon" exists, I'm just saying it's probably not the pitch itself, but rather their accent. Drawling the end of a sentence and rising its pitch high is a signature of Tokyo young girl accent. Notice 小倉優子 is doing it in pretty much all of the sentences? This doesn't make you look very smart and is rather girly so guys don't do it very much but rising of the pitch at the end of a sentence itself is one legitimate way of emphasizing.