Perception of pitch location within a speaker's F0 range.
Perception of pitch location within a speaker's F0 range.
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10.1121/1.1841751
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2005-04
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Douglas N. Honorof;D. Whalen
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作者：
Douglas N. Honorof;D. Whalen
基频(F0)在言语中有多种用途，但它的语言意义是基于它与说话人的音域的关系，而不是它的绝对值。虽然听者可以通过经验辨认出相对于说话者音域的特定音高，但他们是否能对陌生的声音做同样的判断还是一个悬而未决的问题。目前的实验探索了这个问题。20名以英语为母语的人(10名男性，10名女性)在自己的音域内以不同的音调发出元音/a/，音质为口语(非歌唱)。然后，听者在没有熟悉或背景的情况下判断每个孤立的F0位于每个说话者的范围内。无论是整个范围(0.721)还是减去极值的范围(0.609)，相关性都很高。当F0与所有说话者的范围相关时，相关性较高，无论是按性别(0.830)或合并(0.848)分隔，但这里讨论的几个因素可能有助于解释这种模式。无论如何，目前的数据有力地支持了这样的假设，即听者能够在没有外部背景或事先接触说话人的声音的情况下，在一定范围内可靠地定位F0。
Fundamental frequency (F0) is used for many purposes in speech, but its linguistic significance is based on its relation to the speaker's range, not its absolute value. While it may be that listeners can gauge a specific pitch relative to a speaker's range by recognizing it from experience, whether they can do the same for an unfamiliar voice is an open question. The present experiment explored that question. Twenty native speakers of English (10 male, 10 female) produced the vowel /a/ with a spoken (not sung) voice quality at varying pitches within their own ranges. Listeners then judged, without familiarization or context, where each isolated F0 lay within each speaker's range. Correlations were high both for the entire range (0.721) and for the range minus the extremes (0.609). Correlations were somewhat higher when the F0s were related to the range of all the speakers, either separated by sex (0.830) or pooled (0.848), but several factors discussed here may help account for this pattern. Regardless, the present data provide strong support for the hypothesis that listeners are able to locate an F0 reliably within a range without external context or prior exposure to a speaker's voice.