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For voiceless fricatives, the formant pattern determines our aperiodic pitch impression.
Traunmüller [9], for example, termed the aperiodic pitch impression of fricatives "sibilant pitch".
Moreover, listeners obviously relate this aperiodic pitch impression to the adjacent F0 context.
In consequence, creates a lower aperiodic pitch impression in the low pitch-accent than in the high pitch-accent context.
Due to its lower spectral energy boundary and its high acoustic-energy concentration at mid frequencies of about 3 4 kHz, creates an inherently "dark" aperiodic pitch impression.
Likewise, sibilants from the center of the continuum that were identified as /s/ created a too low aperiodic pitch impression to match well with the high F0 context.
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For example, do aperiodic pitch impressions directly fill-in missing F0 sections or do aperiodic pitch impressions only function as acoustic triggers for a signal-external interpolation and filling-in of F0 gaps?
We think this is tricky to test without explicitly drawing the participants attention to the target fricatives' aperiodic pitch impressions.
In normal modally voiced utterances, voiceless fricatives like [s],, [f], and [x] vary such that their aperiodic pitch impressions mirror the pitch level of the adjacent F0 contour.
However, focussing on F0 alone ignores that noise segments in speech can in principle also convey pitch, more specifically, aperiodic pitch impressions.
Niebuhr [25] introduced the term "segmental intonation" to refer to this parallel between the pitch impressions caused by fricative segments and their adjacent F0 contexts.
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