Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-7

  Uther, M ^a   Knoll, M A ^b   Burnham, D ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foreigner directed speech; Infant directed speech; Prosody; Vowel hyperarticulation

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

PROSODY; SPEECH SIGNAL; VOWEL HYPERARTICULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33845948493     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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