Comparing native and non-native speech rhythm using acoustic rhythmic measures: Cantonese, Beijing Mandarin and English

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 423-426

  Mok, Peggy P K ^a   Dellwo, Volker ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEIJING MANDARINS; CANTONESE; CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH RHYTHM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865722014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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