The emergence of mature gestural patterns in the production of voiceless and voiced word-final stops

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 351-364

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Estee, Sandy ^a,b   Lowenstein, Joanna H ^a   Smith, Jennifer ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ARTICULATORY GESTURES; VOCALIC DURATION;

ACOUSTICS; ATTENUATION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 12344276905     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1828474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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