Connecting intonation labels to mathematical descriptions of fundamental frequency

Language and Speech

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-310

  Grabe, Esther ^a   Kochanski, Greg ^a   Coleman, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intonational phonology; Polynomials; Quantitative modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348940317     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309070500030101     Document Type: Article

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