title: The phonetic interpretation of tone in Igbo.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6305.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liberman
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Okeke
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D010700:Phonetics; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013067:Speech Perception