Contextual variation in the acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1751-1762

  Strange, Winifred ^a   Bohn, Ocke Schwen ^b   Nishi, Kanae ^c   Trent, Sonja A ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS;

CROSS-LANGUAGE SIMILARITY; SPEECH CONTEXTS; SYLLABLES; VOWELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944515387     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1992688     Document Type: Article

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