Sources of variation of articulation rate in native and non-native speech: Comparisons of French and German

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 275-279

  Trouvain, Jürgen ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulation rate; Convergence; French; German; Individuality; L1; L2

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

CONVERGENCE; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; FRENCH; GERMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PROFICIENCY LEVEL; SOURCES OF VARIATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84904707441     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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