A weighted reliability measure for phonetic transcription

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1391-1411

  Kimbrough Oller, D ^a   Ramsdell, Heather L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonetic transcription; Phonological coding; Transcription agreement; Transcription reliability; Weighted agreement measure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847748993     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/100)     Document Type: Article

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