Enhanced contrast for vowels in utterance focus: A cross-language study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3022-3033

  Hay, Jessica F ^a   Sato, Momoko ^a   Coren, Amy E ^a   Moran, Cheryl L ^a   Diehl, Randy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DISTINCTIVENESS OF VOWELS; DISTINCTIVENESS-ENHANCING; DURATION VARIANCE; THEORY OF ADAPTIVE DISPERSION; UTTERANCE FOCUS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FRENCH LANGUAGE; GERMAN; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33646463780     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2184226     Document Type: Article

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