Perception of English intonation by English, Spanish, and Chinese listeners

Language and Speech

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-401

  Grabe, Esther ^a   Rosner, Burton S ^a   García Albea, José E ^b   Zhou, Xiaolin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency modulation; Intonation; Multidimensional scaling; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942589172     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309030460040201     Document Type: Article

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