Acoustic characteristics of Greek vowels

Phonetica

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 28-43

  Fourakis, Marios ^a   Botinis, Antonis ^b   Katsaiti, Maria ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032618167     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028439     Document Type: Article

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