Acoustic characteristics of the vowel systems of six regional varieties of American English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1661-1676

  Clopper, Cynthia G ^a,b   Pisoni, David B ^a   De Jong, Kenneth ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS; PHONOLOGY; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; VOWELS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; UNITED STATES; VOWEL;

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

EID: 24944584063     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2000774     Document Type: Article

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