An Acoustic Study of the Tongue Root Contrast in Degema Vowels

Phonetica

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 80-98

  Fulop, S A ^a   Kari, E ^b   Ladefoged, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TONGUE;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE;

EID: 0031609633     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028425     Document Type: Article

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