Emergence of vowel systems through self-organization

AI Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-39

  De Boer, Bart ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SELF-ORGANIZATION; VOWEL SYSTEMS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0033717996     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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