Alain de Cheveigne' wrote:
I didn't miss no boat. It's simply that, having spent many a day visually checking the F0 data, I'm dammed if I'm going to go back through them manually assigning targets. Either my test is relevant (and negative), or someone must explain how targets are distributed according to the musical scale without there being any evidence of this structure in the actual data that the targets are derived from.
Alain: How do you respond to Martin's point (with which I agree) that there is no hope of obtaining any distribution with discrete peaks from quasi-continuous F0 contours? Such contours consist in large part of the transitions between the inflection points that are believed to be significant in intonation. --Bruno Bruno H. Repp Research Scientist Haskins Laboratories 270 Crown Street New Haven, CT 06511-6695 Tel. (203) 865-6163, ext. 236 FAX (203) 865-8963 e-mail: repp@haskins.yale.edu