Cohen A, Collier R, t Hart J
Phonetica. 1982;39(4-5):254-73. doi: 10.1159/000261666.
Declination is taken as the focus of studying pitch phenomena from an acoustic, physiological and perceptual point of view. It is shown that originally declination was no more than a theoretical construct to account for the interpretation of acoustic F0 recordings. Recently, psycholinguistic considerations have enhanced the domain of application so as to account for this phenomenon. The literature is reviewed and the authors take issue over the various claims put forward by others, such as the dominance of the topline over the baseline approach, and the amount of pre-programming involved in declination, as manifested in its slope and in linguistically determined resetting.
下降调被视为从声学、生理学和感知学角度研究音高现象的重点。研究表明，最初下降调只不过是一种理论构想，用于解释声学基频记录的解读。最近，心理语言学方面的考量拓展了其应用领域，以便对这一现象做出解释。本文对相关文献进行了综述，作者对其他人提出的各种观点提出了质疑，比如顶线方法相对于基线方法的主导地位，以及下降调中所涉及的预编程量，这体现在其斜率以及语言决定的重置方面。
