What marks the beat of speech?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2780-2791

  Kochanski, Greg ^a   Orphanidou, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

METRONOME TICKS; SPEECH SIGNAL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; PHONATION; POETRY; READING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43549109243     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2890742     Document Type: Article

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