Table 5.
Upper panel: Mean up-down cycle duration and F0 displacement in the AB+CD and A+BCD phrases at each syllable position. Lower panel: Results of paired t-tests comparing up-down cycle duration and F0 displacement between the AB+CD and A+BCD phrases at each syllable position.
| Cycle duration (ms) | F0 displacement (st) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grouping | Position | Mean | Std. Error | Mean | Std. Error |
| AB + CD | 1 | 225.65 | 11.06 | 2.153 | 0.270 |
| 2 | 150.10 | 7.31 | 0.882 | 0.121 | |
| 3 | 197.15 | 7.58 | 1.711 | 0.173 | |
| 4 | 245.30 | 7.26 | 3.371 | 0.215 | |
| A + BCD | 1 | 261.05 | 9.81 | 3.072 | 0.398 |
| 2 | 174.70 | 6.05 | 1.032 | 0.234 | |
| 3 | 147.60 | 8.15 | 0.538 | 0.135 | |
| 4 | 249.85 | 10.15 | 3.377 | 0.332 | |
| t-tests | t (df = 31) | Sig. (2-tailed) | t (df = 31) | Sig. (2-tailed) | |
| AB + CD vs. A + BCD | 1 | 7.827 | .000 | 6.764 | .000 |
| 2 | 5.121 | .000 | 2.579 | .015 | |
| 3 | −9.021 | .000 | −9.084 | .000 | |
| 4 | 2.513 | .000 | 6.764 | .000 | |