Comparisons of voice onset time for trained male singers and male nonsingers during speaking and singing

Journal of Voice

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 420-430

  McCrea, Christopher R ^a   Morris, Richard J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Temporal acoustic measure; Trained singers; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SINGING; SPEECH; TRAINING; VOICE; VOWEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PHONATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; VOICE; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 23644451046     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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