This paper examines the relation between transcriptions of intonation and information about variation in fundamental frequency obtained from spectrograms. It suggests the necessity for quantizing the latter with respect to time and frequency, having regard to the values for differential thresholds obtained by psychophysical methods and sets out in a preliminary form a procedure for evaluating intonation curves by comparing them with graphs representing suitably quantized physical information. The results of such a comparison for a number of transcriptions made by students of phonetics are presented.
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