Table 2.
Acoustic measures of target words in passages (familiarization) and lists (test) for Catalan and Spanish material.
| Passage words | List words | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD); range | Mean (SD); range | p | |
| DURATION (ms) | |||
| Catalan | 380 (43.4); 331–488 | 596 (78.2); 474–763 | *** |
| Spanish | 378 (59.5); 290–536 | 599 (120); 422–863 | *** |
| p | n.s. | n.s. | |
| AMPLITUDE (dB) | |||
| Catalan | 71.9 (4.2); 65.4–80 | 70.5 (1.2); 68.2–72.5 | n.s. |
| Spanish | 72.9 (3.1); 68.4–78.4 | 71.4 (3.3); 61.2–77.2 | n.s. |
| p | n.s. | n.s. | |
| PITCH (Hz) | |||
| Catalan | 256 (61); 174–388 | 267 (40); 201–372 | n.s. |
| Spanish | 274 (57); 194–396 | 283 (56); 201–406 | n.s. |
| p | n.s. | n.s. | |
Measurements include whole word duration (ms), followed by amplitude (dB) and pitch (Hz) calculated on the vocalic portion of the words. Significant differences are also indicated.
Results of t(23) tests:
***
p < 0.001; n.s. p > 0.05.