How similar are clusters resulting from schwa deletion in French to identical underlying clusters?

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2271-2274

  Bürki, Audrey ^a   Fougeron, Cécile ^b   Veaux, Christophe ^c   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ SORBONNE NOUVELLE PARIS 3   (France)

^c IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic cues; Clusters; Duration; French schwa

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; PSEUDOWORDS;

ACOUSTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450158475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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