A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1379-1393

  Escudero, Paola ^a   Boersma, Paul ^a   Rauber, Andŕia Schurt ^b   Bion, Ricardo A H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; FRONT VOWELS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PITCH EFFECTS; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOWEL SPACE;

ACOUSTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PORTUGAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349086176     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3180321     Document Type: Article

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