Analysis of pitch profiles in Germanic and Slavic languages

Proceedings of Forum Acusticum

Volumn 2014-January, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Demenko, Grazyna ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^b   Andreeva, Bistra ^b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

KURTOSIS AND SKEWNESS; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; PARALINGUISTIC; SLAVIC LANGUAGES; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; VARIABLE PITCH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84953261419     PISSN: 22213767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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