Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 307-314

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Margaretha, Eliza ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84857112248     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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