Laughing, Breathing, Clicking - the prosody of nonverbal Vocalisations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 598-602

  Trouvain, Jürgen ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clicks; Laughing; Paralinguistics; Pauses; Speech respiration

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

CLICKS; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; LAUGHING; PARALINGUISTICS; PAUSES; PROSODIC PHRASINGS; PROSODIC STRUCTURE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84904661191     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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