Singing in tone languages has been the subject of a good deal of research, which shows
that text-setting constraints are the heart of the solution to respecting both the linguistic and …

We examine the degree of correspondence between musical and linguistic tone sequences
in a corpus of 20 Vietnamese popular songs. Our data suggest that text-setting constraints in …

It is generally accepted that speech and melody are distinctive perceptual categories, and
that one is able to overcome perceptual ambiguity to categorize acoustic stimuli as either of …

Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source in the development of
theories of prosody and rhythm in stress-based languages, but have been explored less …

The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological patterning that unveils
structures beyond differences in pitch heights and contour profiles. Following an introduction …

Thai popular singing originated in 1925 during a period of radical change in the country and
later became an important element of entertainment businesses including musical theatres …

A language's prosody finds its way into organizing the rhythmic groups in its music. In both
language and music, prosodies are the result of distribution of prominences in acoustic …

In tone languages, tone is the use of pitch to contrast word meanings; this raises questions
of whether, and if so, in what ways and to what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones …

Linguistic tones play an important role in expressing lexical and grammatical meaning in
tone languages. A small change in the pitch of a word can result in an entirely different …

This paper aims to investigate parallelism between tonal transitions and musical note
transitions in Thai pop songs, focusing on the effect of note duration on parallelism. In …