Influence of Fundamental Frequency Cues on the Perception of Some Synthetic Intonation Contours
Wojciech Majewski, Richard Blasdell · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1969
Synthetic fundamental frequency contours were classified by Polish and American-English listeners as indicating either statements or questions. Graphic analyses were applied to listeners' responses in order to isolate the most prominent F0 cues that served to differentiate statements from questions. Comparisons between the response distributions for the two language groups revealed both common and language-specific cues for F0 contour identification.