Characteristics of Pitch at the Babbling Stage
Yanhua Chen · 2005
What are the characteristics of the pitch development at the babbling stage with a tone language background? F0 mainly determines the tone. And the vocal cord is the physical material making the F0.The kid’s vocal cord still develops. This paper aims to point out the necessity of making the pitch normalization of a kid at the prelinguistic stage with the Lz-score method and relevant mean value and standard deviation and doing the data analysis with the software Praat. And it states the significance and scientific method about the study on characteristics of pitch at the prelinguistic stage.