Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in standard southern British: An acoustic and perceptual study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2825-2835

  Harrington, Jonathan ^a   Kleber, Felicitas ^a   Reubold, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MONOSYLLABLES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTERS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 43549094699     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2897042     Document Type: Article

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