The pitch range of English and Chinese speakers
英汉用语者音调区
Gwang-tsai Chen

Abstract 摘要
An acoustic study was conducted to compare the pitch range of four English-speaking subjects and four Mandarin Chinese-speaking subjects. This study found that the average pitch range of the four Chinese speakers was at least 1.5 times wider than that of the four English-speaking subjects when they spoke their native languages. When the four English-speaking subjects spoke Chinese, their pitch range also increased substantially, although not to the extent of the Chinese speakers.