Interspeaker variation in habitual speaking rate: Additional evidence

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1156-1164

  Tsao, Ying Chiao ^a   Weismer, Gary ^b   Iqbal, Kamran ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Autometric; Direct magnitude production; Interspeaker variation; Scaling functions; Speaking rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39049194423     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/083)     Document Type: Article

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