Contextual tonal variations and pitch targets in cantonese

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wong, Ying Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION MODELING; CANONICAL FORM; CANTONESE; CARRY-OVER EFFECTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; LEXICAL TONES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PITCH TARGET; TARGET LANGUAGE;

EID: 85089844350     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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