Prosodic strengthening and featural enhancement: Evidence from acoustic and articulatory realizations of /a,i/ in English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3867-3878

  Cho, Taehong ^a,b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHY (EMA); ENGLISH VOWELS; PROSODIC STRENGTHENING; TONGUE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; JAW; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIP; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; HUMANS; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS;

EID: 20444417436     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1861893     Document Type: Article

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