A geometric representation of spectral and temporal vowel features: Quantification of vowel overlap in three linguistic varieties

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2334-2350

  Wassink, Alicia Beckford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PHONOLOGICAL OPPOSITIONS; SPECTRAL OVERLAP ASSESSMENT METRIC (SOAM); TWO-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645372014     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2168414     Document Type: Article

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