Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - evidence from sounds and melodies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn 2018-June, Issue , 2018, Pages 582-586

  Niebuhr, Oliver ^a   Thumm, Jana ^a   Michalsky, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Charisma; F0; Pitch accent

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

ASSIMILATION; CHARISMA; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PHONETIC ANALYSIS; PITCH ACCENTS; SPEAKER COMPARISONS; STEVE JOBS; VOWEL SPACE;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

EID: 85050193041     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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