Acoustic characterization of the question-statement contrast in 4, 7 and 11 year-old children

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1308-1318

  Patel, Rupal ^a   Grigos, Maria I ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Acquisition; Children; Development; Intonation; Prosody; Questions; Speech; Statements

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN MATCHING;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; PROSODY; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYLLABLE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33748464699     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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