Phrase-medial vowel devoicing in spontaneous French

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2006-2009

  Torreira, Francisco ^a,b   Ernestus, Mirjam ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

French; Spontaneous speech; Vowel devoicing

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FRENCH; SPEECH RATES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS; VOWEL DEVOICING; CONDITION; SPEECH DATA;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959822908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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