Production of weak elements in speech - Evidence from F0 patterns of neutral tone in standard chinese

Phonetica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-75

  Chen, Yiya ^a   Xu, Yi ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^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; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33644675107     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091406     Document Type: Article

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