Prosodic focus in Hong Kong Cantonese without post-focus compression

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Wing Li ^a   Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Focus; Focus perception; Post focus compression

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; BEIJING MANDARINS; CANTONESE; CHINESE DIALECTS; FOCUS PERCEPTION; HONG-KONG; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; POST-FOCUS COMPRESSION; PROSODICS; TAIWAN MANDARIN;

EID: 85089080190     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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