Fundamental frequency of infants' and parents' utterances in longitudinal recordings

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1636-1647

  Amano, Shigeaki ^a   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Kondo, Tadahisa ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES (F0); LONGITUDINAL RECORDINGS; NONLINGUISTICS; UTTERANCE VARIABILITY;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33644644720     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2161443     Document Type: Article

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