Govender, NicolinBarnard, EDavel, MH2012-01-192012-01-192005-09Govender, N., Barnard, E. and Davel, M.H. 2005. Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments. INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8 2005http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5514INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8 2005Much theoretical work has been done on the tonal structure of languages in the Bantu family. However, most of these studies are not supported by physical measurements, or even a consistent model for mapping from linguistic constructs to such measurements. As a first step towards addressing this deficiency, we report on initial measurements regarding the relationship between fundamental frequency and linguistic tone in isiZulu. After choosing a suitable algorithm for pitch extraction, we have correlated a number of linguistically assigned tone values with measured values for fundamental frequency. These measurements indicate a fairly complex relationship between tone and pitch, and suggest that the commonly observed 'falling' tone in isiZulu may be a context-specific realization of the high tone.enZulu toneisiZuluLinguistic toneAfrican languageInterspeech 2005Conference PresentationGovender, N., Barnard, E., & Davel, M. (2005). Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments. Interspeech 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5514Govender, Nicolin, E Barnard, and MH Davel. "Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments." (2005): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5514Govender N, Barnard E, Davel M, Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments; Interspeech 2005; 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5514 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Govender, Nicolin AU - Barnard, E AU - Davel, MH AB - Much theoretical work has been done on the tonal structure of languages in the Bantu family. However, most of these studies are not supported by physical measurements, or even a consistent model for mapping from linguistic constructs to such measurements. As a first step towards addressing this deficiency, we report on initial measurements regarding the relationship between fundamental frequency and linguistic tone in isiZulu. After choosing a suitable algorithm for pitch extraction, we have correlated a number of linguistically assigned tone values with measured values for fundamental frequency. These measurements indicate a fairly complex relationship between tone and pitch, and suggest that the commonly observed 'falling' tone in isiZulu may be a context-specific realization of the high tone. DA - 2005-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Zulu tone KW - isiZulu KW - Linguistic tone KW - African language KW - Interspeech 2005 LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2005 T1 - Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments TI - Fundamental frequency and tone in isiZulu: initial experiments UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5514 ER -