Loudness predicts prominence: Fundamental frequency lends little

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1038-1054

  Kochanski, G ^a   Grabe, E ^a   Coleman, J ^a   Rosner, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DIALECTS; SPEAKERS; SPEAKING STYLES; SYLLABLES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IRELAND; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 23744496844     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1923349     Document Type: Article

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