Emotional, linguistic or just cute? the function of pitch contours in infant- and foreigner-directed speech

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Knoll, Monja ^a   Uther, Maria ^a   MacLeod, Norman ^b   O'Neill, Mark ^b   Walsh, Stig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

ALGORITHMIC METHODS; INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH; LINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS; PITCH CONTOURS; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; TARGET WORDS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 56149127875     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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