Developmental weighting shifts for noise components of fricative-vowel syllables

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 572-580

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Miller, Marnie E ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; NOISE; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030804875     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419730     Document Type: Article

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