The effects of cross-generational and cross-dialectal variation on vowel identification and classification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1413-1433

  Jacewicz, Ewa ^a   Fox, Robert Allen ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; IDENTIFICATION RATES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOW BACK; NORTH CAROLINA; SAMPLE POINT; SOUND CHANGE; VOWEL CLASSIFICATION; WISCONSIN;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84857398204     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3676603     Document Type: Article

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