A comparison of vowel normalization procedures for language variation research

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3099-3107

  Adank, Patti ^a   Smits, Roel ^b   Van Hout, Roeland ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHONEMIC INFORMATION; VOWELS;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

EID: 9644268217     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1795335     Document Type: Article

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