Acoustic effects of variation in vocal effort by men, women, and children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3438-3451

  Traunmüller, Hartmut ^a   Eriksson, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LUNG PRESSURE; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034123760     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429414     Document Type: Article

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