Between-speaker and within-speaker variation in speech tempo of American English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 839-850

  Jacewicz, Ewa ^a   Fox, Robert Allen ^a   Wei, Lai ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; LIFE SPAN; MIXED EFFECTS; NORTH CAROLINA; SPEAKER VARIATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; WISCONSIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; READING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; READING; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955829590     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3459842     Document Type: Article

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