Frequency distributions of uniphones, diphones, and triphones in spontaneous speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3897-3908

  Kuperman, Victor ^a   Ernestus, Mirjam ^a,b   Baayen, Harald ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHONES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGULATORY PROCESS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TRI-PHONES;

ACOUSTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TELEPHONE SETS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60049084446     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3006378     Document Type: Article

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