Acoustic vowel reduction as a function of sentence accent, word stress, and word class

Speech Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-23

  van Bergem, Dick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic vowel reduction; centralization; increased contextual assimilation; lexical vowel reduction; sentence accent; word class; word stress

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; DYNAMICS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC VOWEL REDUCTION; CENTRALIZATION; FORMANT FREQUENCIES; INCREASED CONTEXTUAL ASSIMILATION; LEXICAL VOWEL REDUCTION; SENTENCE ACCENT; WORD CLASS; WORD STRESS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0027554395     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(93)90015-D     Document Type: Article

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