Learning to Pronounce Vowel Sounds in a Foreign Language using Acoustic Measurements of the Vocal Tract as Feedback in Real Time

Language and Speech

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-20

  Dowd, Annette ^a   Smith, John ^c   Wolfe, Joe ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Formants; French vowels; Speech trainer; Vocal tract

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011172419     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099804100101     Document Type: Article

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