Phonetic and lexical predictors of intelligibility

Computing and Language Variation: A Special Issue of International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 63-82

  Gooskens, Charlotte ^a   Beijering, Karin ^a   Heeringa, Wilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COPENHAGEN; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; LEXICAL LEVEL; LINGUISTIC DISTANCES; PHONETIC LEVEL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84861230650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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