Rational phonological lengthening in spoken Dutch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3935-3940

  Tily, Harry ^a   Kuperman, Victor ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; CORPUS ANALYSIS; DISCOURSE CONTEXT; PRODUCTION MECHANISMS; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84870885395     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4765071     Document Type: Article

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