This study examines and formulates the effect of acoustic parameters on the identification of Mandarin Tone2 and Tone3, which are timing of turning point (T_t), falling of F0 (F0_△), duration (T_d), and precursor register (Register). Three stimulus matrixes of tone tokens are set up with T_t and F0_△. Subjects identify tone tokens. In Experiment 1, matrixes are different in T_t or T_t/Td. In Ex...

F0 is considered to provide speaker-specific information in some extent. Based on the widely agreement that extrinsic F0 is helpful for speaker identity, this paper investigates the possibility of making use of both extrinsic and intrinsic features of Cantonese tone system as speaker-dependent characteristic. Considering the special characteristic of Cantonese tone system, relative tone ratios ...

This study examines the interaction of metrical structure and tone sandhi in Ei (an endangered language spoken in Rongshui, Guangxi Province, China), focusing on tonal reduction conditioned by a foot-like prosodic structure. Our analysis shows that within a disyllabic domain, Ei tone sandhi, mainly in the form of tonal reduction, applies only to the first syllable and the second syllable remain...

This paper depicts a contrastive study on tonal patterns of monosyllables and disyllabic words between Standard Chinese (SC) and three regional accented Chinese(RAC): Shanghai, Xiamen and Taiwan. It is found that for mid level accent speakers, tonal contours of the third tone syllable uttered in isolation or at the final position of a prosodic constituent are always different for RAC from those...

This paper describes the analysis results about register of Vietnamese tones in continuous speech. The obtained results shows that the classification of the registers of Vietnamese tones into two groups (high and low) which is commonly used in isolated words is not appropriate in continuous speech. The register of tone has to be considered in a specific context because of the influence of tonal...

This paper examines tone features on the basis of an acoustic phonetic analysis of F0 and duration data from 10 speakers in Qimen Hui Chinese Dialect. The results show that there are 3 level tones, 2 rising tones, and 1 falling tone in Qimen. The fact that speakers use different F0 contours in the realization of different types of level tones sheds light on the understanding of underlying mecha...

Tones 4 and 8 of Hanoi Vietnamese have strongly contrasting voice quality features: tone 4, which is glottally constricted, is here compared with a similar but nonconstricted tone (tone 8). Under emphasis, the slope of F0 curves is increased and/or F0 register is raised. The open quotient values (calculated from the derivative of the electroglottographic signal, which has been shown to yield ve...

Today it is science and research that provide the rationale behind the insistence upon vowel modification, but the great voice teachers of the past came to the same conclusions solely by means of acute observation and pragmatic experience. In a questionnaire distributed by the authors of the new Prescriptions for Choral Excellence, published by Oxford University Press in January 2006, choral di...