The aim of this experiment was to assess empirically listeners' behaviours in characterising pitch contours with the label pitch register. The motivation for this assessment was initiated by the conflicting use of the term 'register' in speech science and intonology. The findings reported here indicate that pitch register would more appropriately be associated with position of the Low pitch targets and the mean value of the tonal contour. In addition, the importance of the F0-min and the distance between H and L targets have been found to be weaker than previously assumed.
Cite as: Rietveld, T., Vermillion, P. (2001) Cues for perceived pitch register. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 1399-1402, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-361
@inproceedings{rietveld01_eurospeech,
author={Toni Rietveld and Patricia Vermillion},
title={{Cues for perceived pitch register}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={1399--1402},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-361}
}