Lexical frequency and voice assimilation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1040-1051

  Ernestus, Mirjam ^a   Lahey, Mybeth ^a   Verhees, Femke ^a   Baayen, R Harald ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WORD PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC REDUCTION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; LOWER-FREQUENCY WORDS; VOICE ASSIMILATION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; GLOTTIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VIBRATION; VOICE; VOWEL;

FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 33747047286     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2211548     Document Type: Article

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