Frequency, Pitch, Tone and Length

October 14, 2009Thanks to Chilin Shih for making some of these lecture materials available.

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Complex Waves

Complex Wave Example

Other Examples

Fundamental Frequency

Linguistically Speaking

Complex Wave Visual

Why Should You Care?

Suprasegmentals

Where Tone Comes From

Voicing Bar Close-up

Voicing bars, really close up

Voicing bars, really close up

Pitch Tracks

Just So You Know

Tone

A Typology

Mandarin Tone

Mandarin Sentences

How to Transcribe Tone

How to Transcribe Tone

Relativity, in Reality

How To Transcribe Tone

Even More Tones

Variations

Ibibio Tones

Accentual Languages

Japanese

Japanese Examples

Length Distinctions

Danish Vowels

Italian