Post-low bouncing in Mandarin Chinese: Acoustic analysis and computational modeling

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 421-432

  Prom On, Santitham ^a   Liu, Fang ^b   Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; APPROXIMATION MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DYNAMIC FEATURES; FULL TONE; LEXICAL TONES; LINEAR RELATION; MANDARIN CHINESE; MECHANICAL MODEL; NEUTRAL TONE;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84863650496     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4725762     Document Type: Article

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