Effects of speaking rate on the single/geminate stop distinction in Japanese

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1647-1660

  Hirata, Yukari ^a   Whiton, Jacob ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GEMINATE CATEGORIES; SINGLETON; SPEAKING RATE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944516201     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2000807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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