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Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration

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Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. / Leemann, Adrian; Kolly, Marie-José; Li, Yang et al.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). 2016. p. 445-449 (Speech Prosody 2016).

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Leemann, A, Kolly, M-J, Li, Y, Chan, KW, Kwek, G & Jespersen, A 2016, Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). Speech Prosody 2016, pp. 445-449. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-91

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Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Li, Y., Chan, K. W., Kwek, G., & Jespersen, A. (2016). Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016) (pp. 445-449). (Speech Prosody 2016). https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-91

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Leemann A, Kolly M-J, Li Y, Chan KW, Kwek G, Jespersen A. Towards a typology of prominence perception: the role of duration. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). 2016. p. 445-449. (Speech Prosody 2016). doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-91

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Leemann, Adrian ; Kolly, Marie-José ; Li, Yang et al. / Towards a typology of prominence perception : the role of duration. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). 2016. pp. 445-449 (Speech Prosody 2016).

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