The relationship between spectral characteristics and perceived hypernasality in children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2181-2189

  Kataoka, Ryuta ^a,b   Warren, Donald W ^a   Zajac, David J ^a   Mayo, Robert ^a   Lutz, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESONANCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HYPERNASALITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NASAL SPEECH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

EID: 0035030931     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1360717     Document Type: Article

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