Acoustic differences between sustained vowels perceived as young or old

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-5

  Debruyne, Frans ^a,b   Decoster, Wivine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Age recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244499302     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/140154399434490     Document Type: Article

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