Consistency of Tone-Syllable Alignment across Different Syllable Structures and Speaking Rates

Phonetica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 179-203

  Xu, Yi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

HUMANS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032175507     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028432     Document Type: Article

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