Normative Standards for Vocal Tract Dimensions by Race as Measured by Acoustic Pharyngometry

Journal of Voice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-400

  Xue, Steve An ^a   Hao, Jianping G ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; Human vocal tract; Male; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; LARYNX; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUTH CAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 33747115683     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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