The aging female voice: Acoustic and respiratory data

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 171-180

  Awan, Shaheen N ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging voice; Fundamental frequency; Maximum phonation time; Pitch sigma; Vital capacity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVOUSNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; VITAL CAPACITY; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 31644449846     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200400026918     Document Type: Article

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