The Hebrew Vowel System: Raw and normalized acoustic data

Language and Speech

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-308

  Most, Tova ^a   Amir, Ofer ^b   Tobin, Yishai ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bark; Hebrew; Vowel formants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0034231214     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309000430030401     Document Type: Article

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