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The phonetic interpretation of tone in Igbo
M Liberman1, J M Schultz, S Hong
1Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6305.
Phonetica
|January 1, 1993
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.