Comparison of pitch range and pitch variation in Slavic and Germanic Languages

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 776-780

  Andreeva, Bistra ^a   Demenko, Grazyna ^b   Wolska, Magdalena ^c   Möbius, Bernd ^a   Zimmerer, Frank ^a   Jügler, Jeanin ^a   Oleskowicz Popiel, Magdalena ^b   Trouvain, Jürgen ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

British English; Bulgarian; Cross language differences; German; Pitch range; Pitch variation; Polish

Indexed keywords

POLISHING;

BRITISH ENGLISH; BULGARIAN; CROSS LANGUAGES; GERMAN; PITCH RANGE; PITCH VARIATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84904635162     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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