Interspeaker Variability in Emphatic Accent Production in French

Language and Speech

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 341-374

  Dahan, Delphine ^a,c   Bernard, Jean Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emphatic accent; French prosody; Perception; Production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0009908625     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099603900402     Document Type: Article

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