Vocal tract modeling in a prosimian primate: The black and white ruffed lemur

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 749-755

  Gamba, Marco ^a   Giacoma, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCENTUAL DIFFERENCES; PROSIMIAN PRIMATE; VOCAL TRACTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 33750302552     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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