Acoustics of children's speech: Developmental changes of temporal and spectral parameters

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1455-1468

  Lee, Sungbok ^a,b   Potamianos, Alexandros ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOCAL CORD; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 0032969462     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426686     Document Type: Article

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