UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports Title Revisiting f0 Range Production in Japanese-English Simultaneous Bilinguals Author Revisiting f0 range production in Japanese-English simultaneous bilinguals

Graham, Calbert Graham
2013 unpublished
This study reports an experiment in which 10 Japanese-American English simultaneous bilinguals (5 males, 5 females; all undergrads at the University of California, Berkeley) were recorded performing comparable reading tasks in their two languages. The study builds on a relatively new approach to measuring f0 range-proposed by Patterson 2000 and operationalised in Mennen et al. 2012-that computes its high and low points from actual tonal targets in the intonational phonology. Also, unlike in
more » ... previous studies where f0 range is traditionally treated as a one-dimensional measure, f0 range in both languages was measured along two quasi-independent dimensions: level and span. The results reveal that Japanese was realised at a significantly higher level and with a wider range of frequencies (span) than English. This finding provides new insights into the relation between intonational structure and f0 range in two typologically different prosodic systems.
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