Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1213-1222

  Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCAL CORDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030858647     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421048     Document Type: Article

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