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Liu, H., Xu, Y. and Larson, C. (2009) Attenuation of Vocal Responses to Pitch Perturbations During Mandarin Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125: 2299-2306. PDF
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Xu, Y. and Liu, F. (2007) Determining the temporal interval of segments with the help of F0 contours. Journal of Phonetics 35: 398-420. PDF
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Xu, Y. and Sun X. (2002). Maximum speed of pitch change and how it may relate to speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111: 1399-1413. PDF
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Bruno Gauthier, Rushen Shi, Yi Xu and Robert Proulx (2005). Neural-network simulation of tonal categorization based on F0 velocity profiles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, Pt. 2, 2430. Abstract
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Xu, Y., Larson, C. R. and Bauer, J. J. (2002) On-line processing of voice pitch feedback during production of Mandarin tones. International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Abstract
Xu, Y. and Xu, C. X. (2001) Exploring underlying pitch targets in English statements. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, Pt. 2, pp. 2736-2737. Abstract
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Xu, C. X. and Xu, Y. (2001) Effects of syllable position on F0 and duration in Mandarin disyllabic words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, Pt. 2, p. 2414. PDF
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