The role of contrast in limiting vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in different languages

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 1286-1298

  Manuel, Sharon Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LANGUAGE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0025162662     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.399705     Document Type: Article

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