How is period doubling produced?

Questions asked and answered in the first study:

1) What are the articulatory and acoustic properties of period doubling in Mandarin compared to those of vocal fry and modal voice?

2) Where in the tones and phrases is period doubling located with regard to vocal fry, and modal voice?

The major novel findings in this production study were presented in Speech Prosody 2022 @ Lisbon, May 22-28, 2022.

Huang, Y. (2022) Articulatory properties of period-doubled voice in Mandarin. Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, 545-549, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-111

Access the Paper here.

Huang_period doubling_SP22.pdf