Table 4. Results of Welch’s t-tests of all acoustic measures for the final syllable of Ani_1 and Aniyo_1, where the IP-final tone was realized as LH%

LH% Ani_1 LH% Aniyo_1 LH% DoF t-value p-value Cohen’s d
M SD M SD
Valley 122.45 42.46 132.92 43.72 123.04 1.19 0.236 0.21
Peak 197.9 72.77 202.85 60.58 119.05 –0.682 0.497 0.121
Range 75.45 48.18 69.92 29.4 122.84 –1.84 0.068 0.325
Slope 279.56 192.54 360.22 180.86 121.12 –2.901 0.004** 0.514
p<0.01.