The role of the pharynx and tongue in enhancement of vowel nasalization: A real-time MRI investigation of french nasal vowels

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3042-3046

  Carignan, Christopher ^a   Shosted, Ryan ^a   Fu, Maojing ^a   Liang, Zhi Pei ^a   Sutton, Bradley ^b  

^a Department of French ^*  (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation; Pharynx; Rt MRI; Vowel nasalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ARTICULATORY GESTURES; GROWING BODIES; PHARYNX; REAL-TIME MRI; RT-MRI; VOWEL NASALIZATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906256191     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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