Choosing a scale for measuring perceived prominence

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2385-2388

  Jensen, Christian ^a   Tøndering, John ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

4-POINT SCALE; BINARY (2-POINT) SCALE; MULTI-LEVEL SCALES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745219399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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