Differences in acoustic vowel space and the perception of speech tempo

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Weirich, Melanie ^a   Simpson, Adrian P ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 84893003111     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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