Prosodic analysis of foreign-accented English

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2527-2530

  Mixdorff, Hansjörg ^a   Ingram, John ^b  

^a University of Applied Science Berlin   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Prosodic analysis

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450188397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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