Nasometric values for normal nasal resonance in the speech of young flemish adults

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 112-118

  Van Lierde, K M ^a   Wuyts, F L ^b   De Bodt, M ^c,d   Van Cauwenberge, P ^e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic comparison; Flemish; Nasometry; Normal nasal resonance; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH;

ADULT; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOUTH; NOSE; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; PHONETICS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035004497     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/1545-1569(2001)038<0112:NVFNNR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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