Timing and coordination in tone and intonation-An articulatory-functional perspective

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 906-927

  Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affinity index hypothesis; Synchronization; Target approximation; Time marker hypothesis; Time structure model

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249122254     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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