Phonetic effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation: Evidence from Greek polar questions

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 667-696

  Arvaniti, Amalia ^a   Ladd, D Robert ^a   Mennen, Ineke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus; Intonation; Phrase accent; Tonal alignment; Tonal crowding

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

INTONATION; PHONOLOGY; PHRASE ACCENT; TONAL ALIGNMENT; TONAL CROWDING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646253908     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.09.012     Document Type: Article

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