Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1050-1060

  Keating, Patricia ^a   Kuo, Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MANDARIN SPEAKERS; SPEECH MATERIALS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME; VOICE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84865104219     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4730893     Document Type: Article

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