Acoustic evidence for dynamic formant trajectories in Australian English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 458-468

  Watson, Catherine I ^a   Harrington, Jonathan ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033063085     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427069     Document Type: Article

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