Managing the distinctiveness of phonemic nasal vowels: Articulatory evidence from Hindi

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 455-465

  Shosted, Ryan ^a   Carignan, Christopher ^a   Rong, Panying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC OUTPUTS; AIRFLOW DATA; FRONT VOWELS; NASAL VOWELS; ORAL CAVITY; OROPHARYNGEAL; VOCAL-TRACTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIP; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOSE CAVITY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; TONGUE; VELOPHARYNGEAL SPHINCTER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIP; MALE; MOVEMENT; NASAL CAVITY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TONGUE; VELOPHARYNGEAL SPHINCTER;

EID: 84855952257     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3665998     Document Type: Article

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