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The pitch levels of female speech in two Chinese villages

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: The pitch levels of female speech in two villages situated in a relatively remote area of China were compared. The dialects spoken in the two villages are similar to Standard Mandarin, and all subjects had learned to read and speak Standard Mandarin at school. Subjects read out a passage of roughly 3.25 min in Standard Mandarin, and pitch values were obtained at 5-ms intervals. The overall pitch levels in the two villages differed significantly, supporting the conjecture that pitch levels of speech are influenced by a mental representation acquired through long-term exposure to the speech of others.

Source: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.3113892

Authors: Diana Deutsch, Jinghong Le, Jing Shen, Trevor Henthorn

Institutions: University of California San Diego, East China Normal University

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2034072697