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Reducing an F₀ Track to Summary Measures

A pitch track is thousands of frames; a study needs one number per person per measure. Median pitch and pitch variability are two different reductions of the same track, and the seed paper treats them as separate phenotypes with different heritabilities — 17% for pitch and 13% for pitch variability. Students must see that the choice of summary creates the trait.

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Why do a speaker's typical pitch and their pitch variability count as two different traits rather than one?

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Phonetics Speech Sci.: The fundamental frequency (f0) distribution of American speakers in a

A study of 40 American speakers in the Buckeye Corpus that measures fundamental frequency every 20 ms, filters outliers with a per-speaker interquartile range, and reduces the resulting 1.77 million …

Reducing an F0 Track to Summary Measures

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Phonetics Speech Sci.: The fundamental frequency (f0) distribution of American speakers in a

Reducing an F₀ Track to Summary Measures