Commentary: Tone languages and laryngeal precision

Quantitative Tone and Intonation Modeling across Languages

Although it has been shown for many languages that the Fujisaki model is in principle capable of decomposing F0 contours in these languages, problems remain as to the automatic extraction as well as the interpretation of parameters extracted with respect to their phonological relevance. The claim is made in the current article that the Fujisaki model parametrization used must be rooted in the l...

Tone and Phonation in Southeast Asian Languages

COMMENTARY Chance encounters and precision in mitosis

The flawless distribution of chromosomes to the daughter cells in mitosis depends in part on unlikely sources microtubule instability and chance events. Equal chromosome distribution results from the regular arrangement of microtubules shown in Fig. 1. The result is attachment of the partner chromosomes to opposite spindle poles and their movement to opposite poles in anaphase, so that each dau...

Laryngeal Features and Tone in Kyungsang Korean : a Phonetic Study ∗

Kenstowicz, Michael and Chiyoun Park. 2006. Laryngeal Features and Tone in Kyungsang Korean: a Phonetic Study. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. Xx.x, xxx-xxx. F0 is one of the major phonetic correlates to the intensively studied laxtense-aspirated contrast in Korean obstruents. Numerous investigations of the standard Seoul dialect have shown that the vowels following tense or asp...

Auditory-visual discrimination and identification of lexical tone within and across tone languages

The aim of this research is to investigate the general features of lexical tones that might contribute to their categorisation. Thai tones were presented for (a) discrimination and (b) identification by native Thai and non-native Mandarin tone language participants in auditory-only (AO), visual-only (VO) and auditory-visual (AV) conditions. Discrimination tests revealed: (i) good auditory and a...