Some acoustic features of nasal and nasalized vowels: A target for vowel nasalization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3694-3706

  Feng, Gang ^a   Castelli, Eric ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NASAL CAVITY; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029953272     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414967     Document Type: Article

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