Microphone sensitivity as a source of variation in nasalance scores

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1228-1231

  Zajac, David J ^a   Lutz, Richard ^a   Mayo, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nasalance; Speech acoustics; Speech instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MICROPHONE; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH;

AMPLIFIERS; HUMANS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0029987546     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3906.1228     Document Type: Article

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