This paper presents a phonetic analysis of pitch range as perceived and measured on utterance and syllable level. A previous 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 syllable level. This analysis was based on the production of broadcasters reading news messages and a fairytale, both stylistically very restricted and largely standardized. Therefore, in the present study semi- and spontaneous utterances are analyzed to provide evidence that these findings are crosslinguistic rather than discourse-specific. The evidence was provided by auditory annotation and acoustic measurements.