Dispersion and variability of Catalan vowels

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 645-666

  Recasens, Daniel ^a,b   Espinosa, Aina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS CATALANS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Catalan; Contextual and non contextual variability for vowels; Electropalatography; Schwa; Vowel spaces; Vowels

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA PROCESSING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; CATALAN; CONTEXTUAL AND NON-CONTEXTUAL VARIABILITY FOR VOWELS; ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY; SCHWA; VOWEL SPACES; VOWELS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

EID: 33646238948     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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