Equal appearing interval and visual analogue scaling of perceptual roughness and breathiness

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-229

  Yiu, Edwin M L ^a   Ng, Chi Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Agreement; Perceptual voice evaluation; Reliability; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 2342664939     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269920042000193599     Document Type: Article

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