Frequency effects on vowel reduction in three typologically different languages (Dutch, Finnish, Russian)

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1277-1280

  Van Son, R J J H ^a   Bolotova, Olga ^b   Lennes, Mietta ^c   Pols, Louis C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUNDANCY;

ACOUSTIC REDUCTION; FINNISH; FREQUENCY EFFECT; SPECTRAL CENTER; SPEECH CORPORA; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; VIRTUAL TARGET;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009135217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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