Towards an auditory account of speech rhythm: Application of a model of the auditory 'primal sketch' to two multi-language corpora

Cognition

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-254

  Lee, Christopher S ^a   Todd, Neil P McAngus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory 'primal sketch'; Auditory prominence; Rhythmogram analysis; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 5444238595     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.012     Document Type: Article

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