Haskins Publications

Number	462
Year	1984
Drawer	8
Entry Date	11/19/1999
Authors	Remez, R. E., & Rubin, P. E.
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Publication	Perception & Psychophysics, 35, 429-440.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0462.pdf
Abstract	Examined the acoustic and perceptual basis for the concomitant of phonetic perception with sinusoidal signals in 4 experiments using 15 adults and 59 undergraduates. Experiment I determined which of the likely acoustic sources for the anomalous intonation would be identified as the correlate of sinusoidal intonation (SI). Results show that the tone that replicated the 1st formant of the natural utterance provided segmental information about consonants and vowels and served as the acoustic correlate of sentence pitch. Experiment II tested the salience of the empirically determined acoustic correlate of SI. Results show that the functions of Tone 1 included both the segmental use--typically associated with the 1st formant that it replicates--and the use typically identified with the fundamental frequency of phonation in natural speech. Experiment III revealed that Subjects did not hear the intonation of a sinusoidal sentence as the correlate of Tone 1 when that tone was removed from the sinusoidal sentence pattern. Experiment IV showed that the intonation of a 4-tone pattern, composed of 3 SIs imitating formant variation and a 4th imitating fundamental frequency variation, was correlated with the 1st formant tone.
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