THE PROSODY OF BROAD AND NARROW FOCUS IN ENGLISH: TWO EXPERIMENTS

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 791-794

  Hoskins, Steve ^a  

^a Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONDITION; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; NOUN PHRASE; PITCH ACCENTS; PROSODIC ANALYSIS; PROSODICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0041392274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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