On the reliability of overall intensity and spectral emphasis as acoustic correlates of focal accents in Swedish

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-62

  Heldner, Mattias ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0037224907     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(02)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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