Prosodic patterning in distal speech context: Effects of list intonation and f0 downtrend on perception of proximal prosodic structure

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-85

  Morrill, Tuuli H ^a   Dilley, Laura C ^a   McAuley, J Devin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal prosody; Intonation; Perceptual grouping; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904754299     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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