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Table 1 Means (standard deviations are given in parentheses) of phonetic parameters duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity of the male and female speakers from a representative sample of 24 quadruples of stimuli (2 speakers × 2 stress patterns).

From: Neuro-cognitive foundations of word stress processing - evidence from fMRI

 

Duration in seconds

Fundamental Frequency in Hz

Intensity in dB

stress pattern

PU

F

PU

F

PU

F

syllable type

S1

S2

S1

S2

S1

S2

S1

S2

S1

S2

S1

S2

female speaker

.37 (.06)

.73 (.07)

.30 (.06)

.80 (.06)

213 (21)

162 (28)

191 (11)

189 (8.5)

80 (1.5)

71 (4.2)

78 (2.1)

77 (2.2)

male speaker

.47 (.05)

.76 (.06)

.34 (.06)

.83 (.07)

129 (21)

102 (7)

119 (32)

110 (11)

79 (1.1)

73 (2.6)

77 (2.5)

77 (1.4)

  1. The values for F0 and intensity are averaged over syllables using PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink; version 5.1.19). Each value is given for each syllable in each stress pattern (numbers indicate the syllable position within a word and stressed syllables are printed in bold).
  2. PU: penultimate stress; F: final stress.