Some lengthening factors in English speech combine additively at most rates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 476-480

  Cummins, Fred ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032947104     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424576     Document Type: Article

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