Stress, lexical focus, and segmental focus in English: Patterns of variation in vowel duration

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 493-516

  de Jong, Kenneth ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus; Quantity; Stress; Voicing; Vowel duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244256281     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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