Dynamic specification of coarticulated German vowels: Perceptual and acoustical studies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 488-504

  Strange, Winifred ^a   Bohn, Ocke Schwen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; THEORY; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031855531     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423299     Document Type: Article

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