A comparison of voice quality ratings made by Japanese and American listeners using the GRBAS scale

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 147-157

  Yamaguchi, Hiroya ^a,d   Shrivastav, Rahul ^c   Andrews, Moya L ^c   Niimi, Seiji ^b  

^a Tokyo Senbai Hospital   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tokyo Senbai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysphonia; GRBAS; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRBAS SCALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0037640002     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070726     Document Type: Article

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