Good performers know their audience! Identification and characterization of pitch contours in infant-and foreigner-directed speech

Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 299-310

  Knoll, Monja A ^a   Walsh, Stig A ^b   MacLeod, Norman ^b   O’Neill, Mark A ^c   Uther, Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420008074     Document Type: Chapter

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