Measuring Norwegian dialect distances using acoustic features

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-183

  Heeringa, Wilbert ^a   Johnson, Keith ^b   Gooskens, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic features; Acoustics; Dialect; Dialectology; Dialectometry; Phonetics; Phonology

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; DIALECT; DIALECTOLOGY; DIALECTOMETRY; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 57049167473     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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