Acoustic correlates of stress in central Catalan and castilian Spanish

Language and Speech

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-97

  Ortega Llebaria, Marta ^a   Prieto, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

accent; Catalan; prosody; Spanish; stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953032380     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830910388014     Document Type: Article

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