Pitch targets and their realization: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

Speech Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 319-337

  Xu, Yi ^a   Wang, Q Emily ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICALLY PITCH TARGETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0342561578     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00063-7     Document Type: Article

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