Duration and spectral balance of intervocalic consonants: A case for efficient communication

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 100-123

  Van Son, R J J H ^a   Van Santen, Jan P H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic reduction; Prosodic structure; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC REDUCTION; PROSODIC STRUCTURE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24144457252     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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