Reaction time as an indicator of discrete intonational Contrasts in English

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 97-100

  Chen, Aoju ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ONLINE METHODS; PEAK ALIGNMENTS; PEAK HEIGHT; RESPONSE FREQUENCY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85009223919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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