scholarly journals Vocal fundamental frequency: Variation by language, language group, and sex

1989 ◽  
Vol 86 (S1) ◽  
pp. S36-S37
Author(s):  
Carolyn Wardrip‐Fruin
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Wermke ◽  
Johanna Teiser ◽  
Eunice Yovsi ◽  
Paul Joscha Kohlenberg ◽  
Peter Wermke ◽  
...  

CoDAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Nevo ◽  
Chaya Nevo ◽  
Gisele Oliveira

ABSTRACT Purpose: There has been growing research on the effects of language on voice characteristics; however, few studies have examined the impact of language on vocal features within bilinguals. This study aimed to compare vocal parameters among bilingual Hebrew/English speaking individuals when speaking in Hebrew versus English. Methods: Forty bilingual participants (17 males and 23 females) between the ages of 23-60 years were asked to spontaneously speak about a neutral topic. Voice samples were digitalized into a tablet for perceptual and acoustic analyses of selected parameters. Results: Results show that there are changes in resonance, glottal attack, fundamental frequency variation and speech rate when adult bilingual speakers talk in Hebrew as compared to English. Conclusion: These findings provide evidence that language plays a role in affecting vocal characteristics of bilingual individuals when they speak different languages.


2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuko Niwano ◽  
Kuniaki Sugai

In this study a mother's instinctive accommodations of vocal fundamental frequency (f0) of infant-directed speech to two different infants was explored. Maternal speech directed to individual 3-mo.-old fraternal twin-infants was subjected to acoustic analysis. Natural samples of infant-directed speech were recorded at home. There were differences in the rate of infants' vocal responses. The mother changed her f0 and patterns of intonation contour when she spoke to each infant. When she spoke to the infant whose vocal response was less frequent than the other infant, she used a higher mean f0 and a rising intonation contour more than when she spoke to the other infant. The result suggested that the mother's speech characteristic is not inflexible and that the mother may use a higher f0 and rising contour as a strategy to elicit an infant's less frequent vocal response.


2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. EL271-EL276
Author(s):  
Georgia Zellou ◽  
Santiago Barreda ◽  
Bruno Ferenc Segedin

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 808.e1-808.e13
Author(s):  
Rosario Signorello ◽  
Didier Demolin ◽  
Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni ◽  
Bruce R. Gerratt ◽  
Zhaoyan Zhang ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Orlikoff ◽  
Dennis H. Kraus ◽  
Louis B. Harrison ◽  
Margaret L. Ho ◽  
Carolyn J. Gartner

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata D. Przybyla ◽  
Yoshiyuki Horii ◽  
Michael H. Crawford

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