Formants of children, women, and men: The effects of vocal intensity variation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3 PART I, 1999, Pages 1532-1542

  Huber, Jessica E ^a   Stathopoulos, Elaine T ^a   Curione, Gina M ^a   Ash, Theresa A ^a   Johnson, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0032840439     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427150     Document Type: Article

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