Experiments on the meaning of four types of single-accent intonation patterns in Dutch

Language and Speech

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-152

  Caspers, Johanneke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dutch; Intonational meaning; Perception experiments; Pitch accents; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0040440946     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309000430020101     Document Type: Article

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