Patterns of variability in voice onset time: A developmental study of motor speech skills in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-32

  Whiteside, Sandra P ^a   Dobbin, Rachel ^a,b   Henry, Luisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Psychology Service for Older People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Motor speech skills; Phonetic context; Preadolescence; Speech development; Variability; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TIME; VARIANCE; VOICE;

EID: 0037628039     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00598-6     Document Type: Article

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