Speech Prosody 2004 conference

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List of references

Refer to the following examples.

Book

Chomsky, N., 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pimsleur, P.; Quinn, T., 1971. The Psychology of Second Language Learning. 2nd International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge (UK), 8-12 Sept. 1969. London, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Denes, P.B.; David, X.C., 1972, eds. Human Communication: a Unified View. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Part of book

Stevens, K.N., 1972. The quantal nature of speech: evidence from articulatory-acoustic data. In Human Communication: a Unified View, Denes, P.B. ; David, X.C., eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 51-66.

Journal article

Flege, J.-L., 1980. Anticipatory and carryover nasal coarticulation in the speech of children and adults. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 31(3), 525-536.

Piske, T.; MacKay, I.R.A.; Flege, J.E., 2001. Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review. Journal of Phonetics, 29(2), 191-215.

Communication in a conference

Bolinger, D., 1964. Intonation as a universal. In Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Linguists, Cambridge, MA, Lunt, H.G., ed. The Hague: Mouton, 833-848.

Thesis

Feng, G., 1986. Modélisation acoustique et traitement du signal de parole. Thèse de doctorat, Université de Grenoble.