Segmental Durations In The Vicinity Of Prosodic Phrase Boundaries

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 1707-1717

  Wightman, Colin W ^a   Shattuck Hufnagel, Stefanie ^b   Ostendorf, Mari ^c   Price, Patti J ^d  

^a Electrical Engineering Department ^*  (Colombia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PHONETICS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0026734712     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.402450     Document Type: Article

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