Effects of speaking rate on second formant trajectories of selected vocalic nuclei

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3362-3378

  Weismer, Gary ^a   Berry, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEAKING RATES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037945400     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1572142     Document Type: Article

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