Voice onset time merger and development of tonal contrast in seoul korean stops: A corpus study

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 76-90

  Kang, Yoonjung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; F0; Gender; Korean; Tonogenesis; VOT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898809820     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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