Table 1. Descriptive statistics (N = 20) and tests of equality of group means between individuals for each of the acoustic measures used in the DFA.
Acoustic measures | M | s.d. | Minimum | Maximum | Wilks' lambda | F19,256 | P |
Duration | 38.51 | 12.23 | 20.57 | 70.14 | 0.712 | 5.438 | <0.001 |
Mean F0 | 27.07 | 5.77 | 18.95 | 40.69 | 0.610 | 8.613 | <0.001 |
Maximum F0 | 61.45 | 12.18 | 32.80 | 82.80 | 0.663 | 6.848 | 0.085 |
Minimum F0 | 9.80 | 0.76 | 8.76 | 11.54 | 0.900 | 1.500 | <0.001 |
Jitter | 5.75 | 0.50 | 4.94 | 6.54 | 0.794 | 3.499 | <0.001 |
Ampvar | 14.11 | 1.89 | 10.82 | 17.30 | 0.531 | 11.908 | <0.001 |
F1 | 216.94 | 17.85 | 186.27 | 247.57 | 0.539 | 11.505 | <0.001 |
F2 | 416.68 | 28.92 | 362.50 | 465.13 | 0.337 | 26.557 | <0.001 |
F3 | 660.79 | 55.26 | 560.00 | 772.67 | 0.390 | 21.050 | <0.001 |
F4 | 1155.96 | 134.51 | 922.10 | 1360.25 | 0.117 | 101.622 | <0.001 |
F5 | 1618.40 | 105.97 | 1427.27 | 1812.13 | 0.209 | 51.123 | <0.001 |
F6 | 2131.99 | 143.23 | 1845.87 | 2473.20 | 0.270 | 36.513 | <0.001 |
ΔF | 355.81 | 23.12 | 312.16 | 405.29 | 0.139 | 83.131 | <0.001 |
See text for definition of variables.