Additional data for paper presented at the Speech Prosody 2006 conference

This page presents figures and recordings related to the research reported in a conference paper entitled "Pitch and Voice Quality Characteristics of the Lexical Word-Tones of Tamang, as Compared with Level Tones (Naxi data) and Pitch-plus-Voice-Quality Tones (Vietnamese data)". (Authors: Alexis Michaud and Martine Mazaudon.) The paper itself (in PDF format) can be downloaded here.

1) Figures: average curves of fundamental frequency and glottal open quotient for the five speakers, M1 to M5

Note that these 10 figures are with HALVED standard deviation: the standard deviation is so high that showing the full standard deviation would make the figures extremely difficult to read.

Figures are in .eps format; they can be opened with GhostView, as well as with other software such as AdobePhotoshop.

Follow this link to get to the page where our software for analysis of the EGG signal is available for download (with some documentation).

2) Sounds: the four tones in carrier sentence by speaker M2

Format: .wav, sampling rate: 44,100 Hz.

The example chosen is a 'minimal quadruplet': 1ku:-pa 'to wear [a hat]', 2ku:-pa 'to train [oxen]', 3ku:-pa 'to draw towards oneself', 4ku:-pa 'to lie in ambush'. The first word of the carrier sentence is 2cu-ri 'here'. (Tone is indicated as a superscript figure before the first syllable of the phonological word that carries it.)

Note the realisation of the initial stop of suffix /-pa/ as a voiced consonant or even an approximant.