Topic transitions and durational prosody in reading aloud: Production and modeling

Speech Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 247-270

  Smith, Caroline L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Final lengthening; Perception of prosody; Prosodic modeling; Prosody; Relationship to text structure

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

FINAL LENGTHENING; PERCEPTION OF PROSODY; PROSODIC MODELING; PROSODY; RELATIONSHIP TO TEXT STRUCTURES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1842528785     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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