Phonetic tone signals phonological quantity and word structure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1313-1321

  Vainio, Martti ^a   Järvikivi, Juhani ^b   Aalto, Daniel ^c   Suni, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINNISH; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH PRODUCTION; TONE LANGUAGES; WORD MEANING; WORD STRUCTURES;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956401977     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3467767     Document Type: Article

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