Pronunciation reduction: How it relates to speech style, gender, and age

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1477-1480

  Strik, Helmer ^a   Van Doremalen, Joost ^a   Cucchiarini, Catia ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Pronunciation reduction; Speech style

Indexed keywords

AGE; GENDER; PRONUNCIATION REDUCTION; SPEECH STYLE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867203831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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