Age-related changes in human vocal tract configurations and the effects on speakers' vowel formant frequencies: A pilot study

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 132-137

  Xue, An ^a   Jiang, Jack ^b   Lin, Emily ^b   Glassenberg, Raymond ^b   Mueller, Peter B ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic reflection technique; Aging; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004566293     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/140154399435084     Document Type: Article

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