Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3964-3980

  Chang, Charles B ^a,c   Yao, Yao ^b   Haynes, Erin F ^c   Rhodes, Russell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE APPROXIMATION; MANDARIN SPEAKERS; MINORITY LANGUAGES; NATIVE AMERICANS;

EXPERIMENTS; SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959402623     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3569736     Document Type: Article

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