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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infancy. 2012 Nov 22;18(5):10.1111/infa.12006. doi: 10.1111/infa.12006

Table 1. Acoustic characteristics of the labels presented with AD prosody (Experiment 1) and ID prosody (Experiment 2).

M F0
(Hz)
SD F0
(Hz)
Range F0
(Hz)
M Duration
(sec)
SD Duration
(sec)
AD labels 189.7 15.2 69.1-303.4 .826 .13
ID labels with
variation
271.9 44.4 80.2-521.5 1.002 .10
ID labels without
variation
310.9 5.7 91.6-499.5 1.034 .11

Notes. Fundamental frequency (F0) is an indicator of voice pitch. In all experiments, the stimuli were amplified to the same root-mean-square amplitude using Adobe Audition software. They were presented at 65 dB ± 5 dB, as measured by a digital sound level meter located at the infant’s head.