Visual perception of contrastive focus in reiterant French speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 44, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 155-172

  Dohen, Marion ^a   Lœvenbruck, Hélène ^a   Cathiard, Marie Agnès ^a   Schwartz, Jean Luc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Audiovisual speech; Contrastive focus; French; Perception; Prosody

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH; CONTRASTIVE FOCUS; PROSODY;

ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SYNTACTICS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 10444249632     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.10.009     Document Type: Article

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