Speaker-specific formant dynamics: An experiment on Australian English /aI/

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-130

  McDougall, Kirsty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diphthongs; Formant frequency dynamics; Prosodic stress; Speaker identity; Speaking rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843114287     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2004.11.1.103     Document Type: Article

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