Acoustic vowel space size and perceived speech tempo

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Weirich, Melanie ^a   Simpson, Adrian P ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F0 CONTOURS; MALE SPEAKERS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SPEAKING RATE; VOWEL SPACE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878993165     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4798778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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