Estonian and English rhythm: A two-dimensional quantification based on syllables and feet

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Asu, Eva Liina ^a   Nolan, Francis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THE ESTONIAN LANGUAGE   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; PILOT EXPERIMENT; RADICAL REDUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTIFICATIONS; VARIABILITY INDEX;

EID: 85089853589     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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