Four filter channels from seventy to five hundred hertz
Rejecting the second harmonic and isolating the first
The intonation curve is traced on the screen as the speaker speaks
from a tape of a conversation on a busy Parisian street
Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?
A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately
Phonemes explode from parted lips, aperiodic
Vibrating chords, the rise and fall of speech, melodic
Overlapping vocal overtones above the din
The fundamental underneath when we speak and when we sing
Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?
A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately
The Melodic Analyser of the University of Toronto
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sources:
Rejecting the second harmonic and isolating the first
The intonation curve is traced on the screen as the speaker speaks
from a tape of a conversation on a busy Parisian street
Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?
A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately
Phonemes explode from parted lips, aperiodic
Vibrating chords, the rise and fall of speech, melodic
Overlapping vocal overtones above the din
The fundamental underneath when we speak and when we sing
Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?
A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately
The Melodic Analyser of the University of Toronto
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sources:
'Intonation' - essays edited by Dwight Bolinger, mainly
'Machines and Measurements' by Pierre R. Leon and Philippe Martin