Pitch range and F0 scaling in Cantonese

Ivan Yuen

This talk is a preliminary investigation of a quantitative model that predicts the F0 values of Cantonese tones in various serial positions of an utterance. F0 scale is modelled in terms of 3 parameters: Fr (the reference F0), S (pitch span/range), and T (phonological tones). The proposed form of the model is F0= Fr + S^T.