Speaking rates of American and New Zealand varieties of English

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Robb, Michael P ^a   Maclagan, Margaret A ^a   Chen, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation rate; New Zealand English; Speaking rate; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEW ZEALAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542286109     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269920031000105336     Document Type: Review

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