Language-specific effects of pitch range on the perception of universal intonational meaning

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1403-1406

  Chen, Aoju ^a   Rietveld, Toni ^a   Gussenhoven, Carlos ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS);

BRITISH ENGLISH; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; FREQUENCY CODES; IN-DEGREE; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PITCH CONTOURS; SPECIFIC EFFECTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84925099221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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