Vowel classification in children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3843-3851

  Palethorpe, Sallyanne ^a   Wales, Roger ^b   Clark, John E ^a   Senserrick, Teresa ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

EID: 0029773553     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417240     Document Type: Article

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