PARALLELISM, COHERENCE, AND CONTRASTIVE ACCENT

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 555-558

  Theune, Mariët ^a  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION; DEGREE OF COHERENCE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33847659504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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