Comparison of vocal tract formants in singing and nonperiodic phonation

Journal of Voice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Miller, Donald G ^a   Sulter, Arend M ^a   Schutte, Harm K ^a   Wolf, Rienhart F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

MRI; Nonperiodic phonation; Singing; Spectrum analysis; Vocal tract; Vowel formants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONATION; SINGING; SPECTROSCOPY; VOWEL;

EID: 0030941446     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(97)80018-5     Document Type: Article

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