Fine-timing speech registers: A comparison of the prosodic features of child-directed and foreigner-directed speech

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2401-2404

  Biersack, Sonja ^a   Kempe, Vera ^a   Knapton, Lorna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH (CDS); FOREIGNER-DIRECTED SPEECH (FDS); PROSODIC FEATURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745218042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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