Syllable prominence: A matter of vocal effort, phonetic distinctness and top-down processing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 399-402

  Eriksson, Anders ^a   Thunberg, Gunilla C ^a   Traunmüller, Hartmut ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENTS OF; MODEL-BASED OPC; TOPDOWN; VOCAL EFFORTS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009089778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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