Modeling Lexical Tones for Speaker Discrimination

• Published in: Language and speech Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 229 - 243
• Main Authors: Chan, Ricky K. W., Wang, Bruce Xiao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2025; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Female; Fundamental frequency; Humans; Low Achievement; Male; Phonetics; Sound Spectrography; Speech Acoustics; Speech Perception; Speech Production Measurement; Tone; Voice Quality; Young Adult; Mandarin; Speaker discrimination; fundamental frequency; lexical tone; Cantonese

Fundamental frequency (F0) has been widely studied and used in the context of speaker discrimination and forensic voice comparison casework, but most previous studies focused on long-term F0 statistics. Lexical tone, the linguistically structured and dynamic aspects of F0, has received much less res...