Does vowel space size depend on language vowel inventories? Evidence from two Arabic dialects and French

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2465-2468

  Al Tamimi, Jalal Eddin ^a   Ferragne, Emmanuel ^a  

^a University of Lyon 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC VOWEL SPACES; ARABIC DIALECTS; VOWELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745208439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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