Table 2.
Comparison of the prevalence of chromatic formant ratios in English and Mandarin based on the monologue analyses
| Interval | Percentage of chromatic intervals |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-m | M-m | E-f | M-f | |
| Unison | 0.54 | 0.36 | 0.33 | 0.44 |
| Octave | 22.37 | 21.55 | 23.26 | 22.51 |
| Fifth | 16.78 | 16.93 | 17.76 | 20.66 |
| Fourth | 7.80 | 6.66 | 8.94 | 4.56 |
| Maj third | 11.95 | 13.20 | 11.53 | 18.36 |
| Maj sixth | 6.53 | 8.40 | 8.22 | 4.32 |
| Min third | 3.15 | 2.29 | 1.70 | 0.60 |
| Min sixth | 2.86 | 1.94 | 2.87 | 1.34 |
| Tritone | 2.43 | 2.09 | 1.78 | 0.89 |
| Min seventh | 10.34 | 9.26 | 11.18 | 14.39 |
| Maj second | 7.62 | 9.08 | 9.07 | 9.77 |
| Maj seventh | 4.84 | 4.86 | 2.54 | 1.78 |
| Min second | 3.18 | 3.63 | 1.07 | 0.78 |
E, English; M, Mandarin; m, male; f, female; Maj, major; Min, minor.