Parallel encoding of focus and interrogative meaning in mandarin intonation

Phonetica

Volumn 62, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 70-87

  Liu, Fang ^a   Xu, Yi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 29744450523     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090090     Document Type: Article

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