The stop voicing contrast in French sentences: Contextual sensitivity of vowel duration, closure duration, voice onset time, stop release and closure voicing

Phonetica

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 201-219

  Abdelli Beruh, Nassima B ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME; VOICE;

ADULT; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 18544388672     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084158     Document Type: Article

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