The notion of speech prosody dates back to MonradKrohn's (1947) case study of a woman who was unable to produce the phonemic tone contrasts in her native Norwegian dialect, even though she retained considerable musical ability. Languages that exploit phonologically relevant variations in pitch a t the syllable level are called tone languages (for review of the phonetics of tone languages, see G...

This research focuses on the discriminatory experiences that young African American women in South report as a function of their actual and perceived skin tone. Participants (N = 76) were given Pantone Skin Tone guide (Pantone, 2017) asked to find best color (varying undertone lightness) matched closely Following that, an experimenter identified participants’ tone they completed several questio...

Across three experimental studies, we explored how a political candidate's intersections of skin tone, race, and ethnicity affect voting preferences interpersonal judgments (e.g., warmth, trustworthiness, expertise). Study 1 assessed whether White participants would favor light-skinned (vs. dark-skinned) African American candidate. 2 investigated participant (White vs. non-White) based on the i...

In Standard Chinese, a low tone (Tone3) is often realized with a rising F0 contour before another low tone; this tone change is known as the 3 tone sandhi. This study investigated the acoustic characteristics of the 3 tone sandhi in Standard Chinese in telephone conversations and broadcast news speech. The sandhi rising tone was found to be different from the lexical rising tone (Tone2) in disy...

This paper presents our approach to automatically detect tone nuclei, and to use their features for recognizing lexical tones of Chinese continuous speech. We have suggested that Fundamental frequency (F0) contour of a syllable usually consists of three segments: onset course, tone nucleus and offset course. Among them, only tone nucleus contains key features for tone discrimination, hence the ...

This is a preliminary study examining the tonal production of L1 Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) speakers who are also fluent in Mandarin. Both languages have tone sandhi rules in which certain lexical tones are neutralized in non-XP-final positions. Disyllabic Mandarin and TSM words with different tonal combinations in frame sentences were examined. The results suggest that Mandarin Tone 1, Tone ...