Longitudinal voice changes: Facts and interpretation

Journal of Voice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 184-193

  Decoster, Wivine ^a,b   Debruyne, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intraindividual voice changes; Longitudinal sequential research; Voice research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 0034126665     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(00)80026-0     Document Type: Article

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