Prosodic analysis of German produced by Russian and Chinese learners

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hilbert, Andreas ^a   Mixdorff, Hansjörg ^a   Ding, Hongwei ^b   Pfitzinger, Hartmut R ^c   Jokisch, Oliver ^d  

^a BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foreign accent; Prosodic analysis

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN ACCENTS; PITCH ACCENTS; PROSODIC ANALYSIS; PROSODICS;

EID: 84904596782     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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