Language-specific realizations of syllable structure and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1346-1356

  Mok, P K Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-ARTICULATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956406705     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3466859     Document Type: Article

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