Acoustic and spectral characteristics of young children's fricative productions: A developmental perspective

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2570-2578

  Nissen, Shawn L ^a,b   Fox, Robert Allen ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CHARACTERIZATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ARTICULATION; SPEECH PRODUCTION;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DURATION; FRICATIVE; HUMAN; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMALIZED AMPLITUDE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL MOMENT; SPECTRAL SLOPE; SPECTRAL VARIANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VARIANCE; VOICELESS FRICATIVE; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 26844446289     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2010407     Document Type: Article

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