Abstract
Singers in tone languages are often thought to rely entirely on song melody to realize the tonal speech melody of the language. There is, however, some limited evidence that singers directly modify vowel F0 corresponding to lexical tone while singing. This paper analyzes the acoustic output of ten Cantonese singers singing a specially composed song to test whether singers adjust their performances to reflect mismatches between speech melody and song melody. It is found that singers include the dynamic portion of rising contour tones (falling tones were not included in this study) but that they do not adjust their performance to mark register components of tone.
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