The Phonetic Interpretation of Tone in Igbo
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Phonetica
- Vol. 50 (3) , 147-160
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000261935
Abstract
This article presents a preliminary study of the phonetic interpretation of tone in Igbo, a Kwa language of southeastern Nigeria. The experimental method varies the speaker’s pitch range orthogonally with variation in tonal material, and fits a model to measurements of maxima and minima in the resulting Fo contour. A new interpretation of downstep is proposed as a result.Keywords
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