Maximum speed of pitch change and how it may relate to speech

How fast speakers can change pitch voluntarily is potentially an important articulatory constraint for speech production. Previous attempts at assessing the maximum speed of pitch change have helped improve understanding of certain aspects of pitch production in speech. However, since only "response time"--time needed to complete the middle 75% of a pitch shift--was measured in previous studies, direct comparisons with speech data have been difficult. In the present study, a new experimental paradigm was adopted in which subjects produced rapid successions of pitch shifts by imitating synthesized model pitch undulation patterns. This permitted the measurement of the duration of entire pitch shifts. Native speakers of English and Mandarin participated as subjects. The speed of pitch change was measured both in terms of response time and excursion time-time needed to complete the entire pitch shift. Results show that excursion time is nearly twice as long as response time. This suggests that physiological limitation on the speed of pitch movement is greater than has been recognized. Also, it is found that the maximum speed of pitch change varies quite linearly with excursion size, and that it is different for pitch rises and falls. Comparisons of present data with data on speed of pitch change from studies of real speech found them to be largely comparable. This suggests that the maximum speed of pitch change is often approached in speech, and that the role of physiological constraints in determining the shape and alignment of F0 contours in speech is probably greater than has been appreciated.     

High longitudinal selectivity of shifting multiplexing in volume holograms

High longitudinal selectivity of the shifting multiplexing with spherical reference wave is proposed and demonstrated. A simplified method based on wave optics is used for calculating the selectivity, and the result fits well the experimental measurement. Under the paraxial condition, a simple formula for the longitudinal selectivity is introduced. With use of an object lens with effective NA=0.817, we obtain that an FWHM of selectivity is as small as 1 μm.     

Optical phase locked-loop homodyne receiver using an eight-port 90° optical hybrid

The performance of a PSK optical phase locked-loop (PLL) homodyne system based on an eight-port 90° optical hybrid, which is used to suppress the local oscillator (LO) intensity noise in both data recovery arm (I arm) and carrier recovery arm (Q arm), is evaluated. Incomplete cancellation of LO intensity noise results from unmatched photodetectors, couplers pathlengths, and non-ideal couplers power splitting ratio. Optimum LO power can be found for the given receiver parameters.     

“J—646”新型光学光敏胶胶合工艺简介

“J—646”光敏胶具有透光率好,收缩率小,粘接强度适中,耐老化,毒性小和成本低廉等特点。本文简要介绍了该胶的胶合工艺。     

200兆赫高功率CW锁模YAG激光泵浦源研究

本文报导一台200MHz 12W平均功率的CW锁模Nd:YAG激光泵浦源,输出脉宽约100ps,能够可靠地长期稳定运转。     

不稳定晶格的能带计算

由于导电高分子是宽能带体系,紧束缚近似下的Su-Schrieffer-Heeger(缩写为SSH)模型存在一系列问题,需要加以改进才能满意地研究导电高分子的一维晶格的不稳定性。本工作将稳定晶格的Wannier函数方法加以推广,用来计算不稳定晶格的电子能带。数值结果表明,本方法的收敛性很快,取到三近邻时,能带的准确度可优于1％。同时能很精确地确定不稳定性所引起的二聚化。 关键词：     

内毒素肺损伤对多形核白细胞化学发光的影响

本文研究了绵羊内毒素肺损伤对全血多形核白细胞(PMN)化学发光的影响;比较了正常混合血浆正常自体血浆和自体致伤血浆调理酵母多糖对发光的影响;观察了致伤后的血浆和肺淋巴液的发光促进活性.结果表明,内毒素致伤后,PMN的化学发光峰时无显著变化,而峰值于4h前呈直线上升,4h达高峰,而后逐渐减弱,但至24h仍明显大于伤前值.三种不同血浆调理酵母多糖对PMN发光无明显影响.致伤后期(2h后)的血浆和肺淋巴液无发光促进活性.这些结果提示,一次性微量的大肠杆菌内毒素对PMN的发光具有强烈和持久的促进作用,而对血浆的调理能力无明显影响.     

短脉冲载荷下金属材料的层裂破坏

 本文用点炮加载聚酯薄膜飞片撞击金属靶材料，飞片速度0.714~2.24 km/s，脉冲宽度40~80 ns，击靶压力为2.280~11.952 GPa。在回收的铝、铜和钢靶样品上观察到层裂现象。通过金相分析发现它们的破坏方式与在一般较长脉冲加载下的破坏方式相似，铝和铜以延性方式破坏；钢则以脆性方式破坏。一维和二维数值模拟结果表明通常的几种层裂判据在这个应力、应变和应变率范围内也基本上适用。     

双齿配位过渡金属化合物化学——Ⅲ.钒的邻巯基苯酚配合物的顺磁谱研究

测定了二个顺磁性化合物(Ph_1P)[V_2(mp)_6](Ⅰ)和(Ph_4P)_2[NaV(mp)_3 (MeCN)(MeOH)](Ⅱ)(H_2mp=邻巯基苯酚,o-HO_1C_6H_4SH)的固态和/或溶液中的顺磁波谱。(Ⅰ)的77K固态谱及(Ⅱ)的室温固态谱均经模拟计算,认为它们的钒原子处在S=l/2的Ⅰ=7/2状态,(Ⅱ)的低温(77K)溶液谱(乙腈)与Ⅱ的固态谱相同,均有特征的八条精细结构,认为非配对电子基本上定域在钒原子的周围。     

X光底片在位相对标定

本文描述了X光底片在位相对标定技术。其原理是使X射线谱经阶梯形吸收滤片透射后,对X光底片曝光,测量底片的曝光量。文中给出了标定方法和数据处理方法,而且也给出了在X光激光实验中得到的Kodak AA5底片的特性曲线。