Focus, prosodic context, and phonological feature specification: Patterns of variation in fricative production

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2769-2779

  Silbert, Noah ^a   De Jong, Kenneth ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC POWER; FRICATIVES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 43549104244     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2890736     Document Type: Article

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