Pointing gestures do not influence the perception of lexical stress

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2445-2448

  Jesse, Alexandra ^a,b   Mitterer, Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gestures; Lexical stress; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GESTURES; PITCH CONTOURS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STRESS PERCEPTION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84865721922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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