Speech rhythm as durational marking of prosodic heads and edges. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Prieto, Pilar ^a,b   Vanrell, Maria del Mar ^b   Astruc, Lluïsa ^c   Payne, Elinor ^d   Post, Brechtje ^e  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e JESUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalan; English; Final lengthening; Index measures; Prominence duration; Prosody based view of rhythm; Rhythm; Spanish; Spanish language

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS; RHYTHM METRICS; SPEECH RHYTHM; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85089101400     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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