Redescribing intonational categories with Functional Data Analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1141-1144

  Zellers, Margaret ^a   Gubian, Michele ^b   Post, Brechtje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional Data Analysis; Fundamental frequency; Intonation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

F0 CONTOURS; FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INTONATION; 'CURRENT; LABELINGS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 79959829041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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