Morphological predictability and acoustic duration of interfixes in Dutch compounds

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2261-2271

  Kuperman, Victor ^a   Pluymaekers, Mark ^a   Ernestus, Mirjam ^a   Baayen, Harald ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC DURATION; HYPOTHESIS; PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 34047250979     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2537393     Document Type: Article

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