Language redundancy predicts syllabic duration and the spectral characteristics of vocalic syllable nuclei

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3048-3058

  Aylett, Matthew ^a,b   Turk, Alice ^b  

^a Rhetorical Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REDUNDANCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC REDUNDANCY; CENTRALIZATION; LANGUAGE REDUNDANCY; SYLLABIC DURATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHONEME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; VOWEL;

COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646452756     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2188331     Document Type: Article

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