Identification of regional varieties by intonational cues. An experimental study on Hamburg and Berlin German

Language and Speech

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-139

  Peters, Jörg ^a   Gilles, Peter ^b   Auer, Peter ^b   Selting, Margret ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intonation; Language recognition; Regional variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH;

BERLIN; CUES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0038320870     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309020450020201     Document Type: Article

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