The role of duration as a phonetic correlate of focus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 591-594

  Kügler, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; CONTRASTIVE FOCUS; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SENTENCE LENGTH; TARGET WORDS;

EID: 84902658003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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