An analysis of vocal tract shaping in English sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2823-2826

  Bresch, Erik ^a   Riggs, Daylen ^b   Goldstein, Louis ^b   Byrd, Dani ^b   Lee, Sungbok ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fricatives; Real time MRI; Sibilants; Tongue shape analysis

Indexed keywords

CORONAL PLANES; FRICATIVES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REAL-TIME MRI; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SIBILANTS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

QUALITY CONTROL; RESONANCE; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84867224800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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