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Dear List,
Is anyone aware of studies reporting empirical comparisons of speech fundamental frequency trajectories in English vs. Mandarin connected speech?
In 1982 Eady published a paper on this topic and found that
“the speech of the Mandarin subjects displayed a greater average rate of
Fo change
than that of the American subjects. The Chinese speech was also characterized by more
Fo fluctuations
(peaks and valleys) as a function of time and as a function of the number of syllables.”
(Eady, S. J. (1982). Differences in the F0 patterns
of speech: Tone language versus stress language. Language and speech,
25(1), 29-42.)
Twenty years later Keating and Kuo revisited this issue and also found some differences in F0 patterns in the two
languages, but also found that the choice of speech materials can influence the results.
(Keating,
P., & Kuo, G. (2012). Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(2), 1050-1060.)
Is anyone aware of more recent studies?
Thanks,
Ani
Aniruddh D. Patel
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University
CIFAR Fellow
Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program
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