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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Phon. 2009 Oct;37(4):502–520. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2009.08.003

Table 3.

Mean values of Maxf0, Minf0, mean F0 displacement, mean vp/d ratio, Mean C and up-down cycle duration of all the tone sequences under the effects of Speaking mode, Location in sentence, Tone and Phrase length. Also displayed are the F and p values of the main effects of a 4-factor ANOVA.

Speaking mode Location in sentence Tone sequence Phrase length
lecture conversation non-final final all-R all-F 1 2 3 4
Maxf0 (st) 93.44 91.79 93.26 91.97 91.59 93.63 93.54 92.54 92.33 92.04
F(1,7) = 14.09 F(1,7) = 33.43 F(1,7) = 69.86 F(3,21) = 28.49
p = 0.007 p = 0.001 p < 0.001 p < 0.001

Minf0 (st) 88.7 87.7 89 87.4 87.8 88.59 86.79 88.07 88.67 89.26
F(1,7) = 7.48 F(1,7) = 42.6 F(1,7) = 8.06 F(3,21) = 50.77
p = 0.029 P < 0.001 p = 0.025 p < 0.001

Mean F0 displacement (st) 3.69 3.09 3.38 3.4 3.45 3.34 5.64 3.45 2.45 2.03
F(1,7) = 26.51 F(1,7) = 0.014 F(1,7) = 0.33 F(3,21) = 87.69
p = 0.001 p = 0.909 p = 0.585 p < 0.001

Mean vp/d ratio 16.88 17.3 16.85 17.33 16.23 17.94 13.84 16.07 18.75 19.68
F(1,7) = 0.345 F(1,7) = 0.34 F(1,7) = 6.789 F(3,21) = 10.81
p = 0.575 p = 0.578 p = 0.035 p < 0.001

Mean C 1.90 1.88 1.8 1.98 1.92 1.86 2.07 1.90 1.82 1.76
F(1,7) = 0.225 F(1,7) = 11.18 F(1,7) = 0.892 F(3,21) = 6.75
p = 0.649 p = 0.012 p = 0.376 p = 0.002

Up-down cycle duration 251.1 239.2 239.5 250.9 265.4 225 314.8 247.4 213.8 204.6
F(1,7) = 5.43 F(1,7) = 2.14 F(1,7) = 30.08 F(3,21) = 92.59
p = 0.053 p = 0.187 p = 0.001 p < 0.001