Grabe, E., G. Kochanski and J. Coleman (2007).
Connecting intonation labels to mathematical descriptions of fundamental
frequency. Language and Speech 50
(3), 281-310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00238309070500030101
This paper uses orthogonal polynomials to model f0
contours in various kinds of sentences in several UK English dialects.
JE Evans, M Chu, JAD Aston and C Su (2010). Linguistic
and human effects on F0 in a tonal dialect of Qiang Phonetica,
67: 82-99. Preprint.
This paper gives a mixed effects analysis for a rare Sino-Tibetan language
and finds previously undocumented linguistic male / female distinctions.
Further examples and scripts:
All the materials (presentations, software, data etc.) from one-day teach-in in Oxford on acoustic modelling of sound change (8 Jan 2016) can be downloaded from here.
Materials from the Tutorial workshop on methods for large-scale phonetic data analysis (7 Apr 2014) can be downloaded from here