Speech rhythm variation in dialects of Spanish: Applying the pairwise variability index and variation coefficients to Peruvian Spanish

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 431-434

  O'Rourke, Erin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; RESEARCH;

RHYTHM METRICS; SPEECH RHYTHM; VARIABILITY INDEX; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878962604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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