Extreme reductions: Contraction of disyllables into monosyllables in Taiwan Mandarin

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 456-459

  Cheng, Chierh ^a   Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contraction; Duration; Reduction; Speech rate; Taiwan Mandarin; Undershoot

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RATES; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; TAIWAN MANDARIN; TIME PRESSURES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SHRINKAGE;

EID: 70450162180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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