An EMA/EPG study of vowel-to-vowel articulation across velars in Southern British English

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6-8, 2004, Pages 577-592

  Fletcher, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coarticulation; Electromagneticarticulography; Electropalatography; English

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VOWEL;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PALATE, HARD; PALATE, SOFT; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE;

EID: 8644256119     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200410001703619     Document Type: Article

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