Multilevel modeling of between-speaker and within-speaker variation in spontaneous speech tempo

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1104-1113

  Quené, Hugo ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEACHING;

DIALECT REGIONS; MULTILEVEL MODELING; SPEAKER VARIATIONS; SPEECH TEMPO;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEACHER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; PHONATION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38849207855     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821762     Document Type: Article

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