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. 2016 Nov 8;7:1708. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01708

Table 1.

Duration and pitch of the auditory tracks of iambs and trochees stimuli.

Duration Pitch
Female Male Female Male
Syllable 1 Iamb 238 ± 46 214 ± 31 280 ± 12 136 ± 8
Trochee 239 ± 43 229 ± 19 338 ± 13 152 ± 10
p n.s n.s <0.001 <0.001
Syllable 2 Iamb 153 ± 27 135 ± 18 296 ± 12 139 ± 6
Trochee 155 ± 28 138 ± 18 326 ± 27 131 ± 18
p n.s. n.s. <0.001 n.s.
Syllable 3 Iamb 368 ± 41 299 ± 46 275 ± 24 124 ± 13
Trochee 321 ± 67 253 ± 69 265 ± 19 118 ± 5
p 0.006 0.019 n.s. n.s.
Syllable 4 Iamb 366 ± 25 274 ± 41 238 ± 10 117 ± 9
Trochee 360 ± 32 271 ± 38 247 ± 17 115 ± 6
p n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.

We indicate the mean and standard deviation of duration and maximum F0 over each of the four syllables of each iambic and trochaic stimuli, for the female and for the male speaker. For each speaker, we submitted the duration and maximum F0 measured over each syllable in each one of the iambic and trochaic stimulus, to two separated paired t-test (alpha 0.05, 2 tails), one t-test for duration and one for F0. The p-values for those comparisons are indicated per syllable and speaker.