The tonal space of contrastive five level tones

Phonetica

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Kuang, Jianjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887031230     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000353853     Document Type: Article

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