The rhythm of text and the rhythm of utterances: From metrics to models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1519-1522

  Hirst, Daniel ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Linguistic typology; Metrics; Rhythm; Speech prosody

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; METRICS; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; SPEECH PROSODY;

LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450161722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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