Mandarin full tones with a fixed pitch . On the other hand , a weakly stressed syllable has a neutral tone and a pitch depending upon the syllable appearing before it (Qian 1995 . Businessmen and pop stars are commonly associated with this linguistic feature . Author Zhang refers to this as `cosmopolitan ' variable . Hence , it can be observed that an individual 's linguistic traits are often linked to his /her profession (Irvine 2001 . Data Analysis The colleted information based on the interviews was...











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