Acoustic analysis of vowels following glossectomy

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 135-140

  Whitehill, Tara L ^a   Ciocca, Valter ^a   Chan, Judy C T ^a   Samman, Nabil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Glossectomy; Intelligibility; Vowel production

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TONGUE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 31644445080     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200400026694     Document Type: Article

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