Acoustic analyses of developmental changes and emotional expression in the preverbal vocalizations of infants

Journal of Voice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 509-529

  Scheiner, Elisabeth ^a,c   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a,d   Jürgens, Uwe ^a   Zwirner, Petra ^b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustical analysis; Emotional expression; Infant vocalization; Preverbal behavior; Vocal ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HARMONIC TO NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECORDING; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION; AFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

AFFECT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

EID: 0036989004     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(02)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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