The role of prosody in the perception of US native English accents

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 437-440

  Ikeno, Ayako ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent; Dialect; Perception; Prosody

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCENT; ACCENT CLASSIFICATIONS; DIALECT; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT; PROSODY; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949180153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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