A modified statistical pattern recognition approach to measuring the crosslinguistic similarity of Mandarin and English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1447-1460

  Thomson, Ron I ^a   Nearey, Terrance M ^b   Derwing, Tracey M ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES; ENGLISH VOWELS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION APPROACH; VOWEL PRODUCTION;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349105145     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3177260     Document Type: Article

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