Analysis of Tones in Cantonese Speech Based on the Command-Response Model

Phonetica

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-62

  Gu, Wentao ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Fujisaki, Hiroya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34347214806     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: 14230321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100060     Document Type: Article

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