Language identification with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 512-521

  Ramus, Franck ^a   Mehler, Jacques ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0032943763     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424522     Document Type: Article

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