An acoustic description of the vowels of Northern and Southern Standard Dutch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1729-1738

  Adank, Patti ^a   Van Hout, Roeland ^b   Smits, Roel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; SPEECH MATERIALS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; VOWEL;

ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHONETICS; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 4444228948     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1779271     Document Type: Article

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