%0 Journal Article %1 Gandour1991a %A Gandour, Jackson T. %A Potisuk, Siripong %A Ponglorpisit, Suvit %A Dechongkit, Sumalee %D 1991 %J Speech Communication %K frequency,lexical fundamental production,thai tones,speech %N 4 %P 355--372 %T Inter- and intraspeaker variability in fundamental frequency of Thai tones %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-6393(91)90003-C %V 10 %X A measure was obtained of variability in fundamental frequency (F0) in citation forms of lexical tones. The language selected for investigation was Thai, a tone language with five lexical tones: mid, low, falling, high and rising. Twenty speakers participited in the experiment: 10 “young” male speakers and 10 “old” speakers, 5 male and 5 female. High-quality tape recordings were obtained of each subject's productions of a minimal set of five monosyllabic words. F0 contours were extracted by a cepstral analysis. A comparison was made of inter- and intraspeaker variability in the production of the five Thai tones. Results of analysis of variance indicated that the degree of intersubject variability in F0 was greater than intraspeaker across all five tones, that young and old speakers exhibited the same pattern of variability, and that variability in tone production differed depending on the lexical tone. The falling and rising tones exhibited smaller degrees of variability than the mid, low or high. Findings are interpreted to highlight the nature of F0 variability, the relationsip of F0 variability to amount of F0 movement, and crosslinguistic differences in F0 variability as a function of prosodic structure.

@article{Gandour1991a, abstract = {A measure was obtained of variability in fundamental frequency (F0) in citation forms of lexical tones. The language selected for investigation was Thai, a tone language with five lexical tones: mid, low, falling, high and rising. Twenty speakers participited in the experiment: 10 “young” male speakers and 10 “old” speakers, 5 male and 5 female. High-quality tape recordings were obtained of each subject's productions of a minimal set of five monosyllabic words. F0 contours were extracted by a cepstral analysis. A comparison was made of inter- and intraspeaker variability in the production of the five Thai tones. Results of analysis of variance indicated that the degree of intersubject variability in F0 was greater than intraspeaker across all five tones, that young and old speakers exhibited the same pattern of variability, and that variability in tone production differed depending on the lexical tone. The falling and rising tones exhibited smaller degrees of variability than the mid, low or high. Findings are interpreted to highlight the nature of F0 variability, the relationsip of F0 variability to amount of F0 movement, and crosslinguistic differences in F0 variability as a function of prosodic structure.}, added-at = {2011-03-27T17:20:41.000+0200}, author = {Gandour, Jackson T. and Potisuk, Siripong and Ponglorpisit, Suvit and Dechongkit, Sumalee}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2676b253c0186e23866cdbfe64a7339bb/yevb0}, interhash = {56e27bc3bef2cf53a98585045401d9c9}, intrahash = {676b253c0186e23866cdbfe64a7339bb}, issn = {01676393}, journal = {Speech Communication}, keywords = {frequency,lexical fundamental production,thai tones,speech}, month = nov, number = 4, pages = {355--372}, timestamp = {2011-03-27T17:20:51.000+0200}, title = {Inter- and intraspeaker variability in fundamental frequency of Thai tones}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-6393(91)90003-C}, volume = 10, year = 1991 }