Lexical frequency and acoustic reduction in spoken Dutch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2561-2569

  Pluymaekers, Mark ^a   Ernestus, Mirjam ^a   Harald Baayen, R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC REDUCTION; HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; SPEECH RATE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; AFFIX; AGE; ARTICLE; DUTCH LANGUAGE; GENDER; HIGH FREQUENCY WORD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; LINGUISTICS; LOW FREQUENCY WORD; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH RATE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 26844497071     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2011150     Document Type: Article

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