Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-140

  Clopper, Cynthia G ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542320767     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(03)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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