Acoustic modeling of American English /r/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 343-356

  Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a,b   Boyce, Suzanne E ^a,c   Jackson, Michel ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^d   Alwan, Abeer ^e  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCAL CORD;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033927512     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429469     Document Type: Article

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