Tone Perception in Sgaw Karen

Sgaw Karen has a complex tone system based on voice quality, f0 and duration. A perceptual study reveals that voice quality and duration are central to its patterns of tone contrast. F0-based identification cues are the presence of a low offset and of a falling contour. No evidence was found for the decompositionality of contours.

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