Cross-dialectal variation in formant dynamics of American English vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2603-2618

  Fox, Robert Allen ^a   Jacewicz, Ewa ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AMERICAN ENGLISH; DIALECTAL VARIATION; FORMANT DYNAMICS; NORTH CAROLINA; RATE OF CHANGE; SPECIFIC NATURE; SPECTRAL CHANGE; TRAJECTORY LENGTH; WISCONSIN;

SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 70449432601     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3212921     Document Type: Article

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