The phonetic interpretation of tone in Igbo.
This article presents a preliminary study of the phonetic interpretation of tone in Igbo, a Kwa language of southeastern Nigeria. The experimental method varies the speaker's pitch range orthogonally with variation in tonal material, and fits a model to measurements of maxima and minima in the resulting F0 contour. A new interpretation of downstep is proposed as a result.
Liberman
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Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6305.
Schultz
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Hong
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Okeke
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D010700:Phonetics; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013067:Speech Perception