[Lingtyp] Correlation between trills and pitch (JOO Ian)

[Spike Gildea]

My late colleague Susan Guion co-authored an article with Ratree Wayland in 2003 about how airflow in onset trills can condition tonogenesis, falling tone in their example. Searching for trills and tonogenesis brings up other examples, apparently not all of falling tone. So trills and pitch do seem to be connected, at least diachronically.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252900702_Aerodynamic_Coarticulation_in_Sound_Change_or_How_Onset_Trills_Can_Condition_a_Falling_Tone

Best,
Spike

From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Tihomir Rangelov via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Date: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
To: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Correlation between trills and pitch (JOO Ian)
Hi,
If this helps, you can find some spectrograms of words with bilabial trills from Ahamb here: https://share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/ngPE9xj5mQzpXPp<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/ngPE9xj5mQzpXPp__;!!C5qS4YX3!Cm-Uq91OYtCFEbTPMRcwzuXJJp1uIcT9QUKTWhq3T3sYzYml3GU7WaZjzhF2q5DJNyJw5Eka2N6wl51RtHJeuO3kS3ag$> . As far as I can tell, pitch does not appear to be substantially affected at trills. Female speaker in her 30s.
Best,
Tihomir



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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 05:34:56 +0000
Subject: [Lingtyp] Correlation between trills and pitch
Dear typologists,

When I was practicing singing with my choir, I noticed that it's much harder to articulate trills (bilabials or alveolar, neither of which is in my native lect) when the pitch goes up.
Is there any articulatory correlation between trill articulation and pitch, and if so, is it phonologically reflected in any lect? (For example, restricted distribution of high tones on syllables with trills?)

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Ian


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