The effects of tones on speaking frequency and intensity ranges in Mandarin and Min dialects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3225-3230

  Chen, Sheng H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MANDARIN SPEAKERS; MIN SPEAKERS; SPEAKING FREQUENCY; TONES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18744388333     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1872312     Document Type: Article

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