Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 220-251

  Xu, Yi ^a,b  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intonation; Intonation model; Pitch accents; Pitch target; Tone

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

INTONATION; INTONATION MODEL; PITCH ACCENTS; PITCH TARGET; TONE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844447847     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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