Evidence for efficiency in vowel production

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 37-40

  Van Son, R J J H ^a   Pols, Louis C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOWEL PRODUCTION; WORD IDENTIFICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009279403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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