Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1007-1010

  Chen, Szu Wei ^a   Wang, Bei ^b   Xu, Yi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Focus; Language contact

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; BEIJING MANDARINS; GROUP DIFFERENCES; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; RECOGNITION RATES; TAIWAN MANDARIN;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70450172334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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