Longitudinal developmental changes in spectral peaks of vowels produced by Japanese infants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2272-2282

  Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Mugitani, Ryoko ^a   Kato, Hiroko ^a   Amano, Shigeaki ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICULATORY ORGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES; SPECTRAL PEAKS; VOWEL SPACE EXPANSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JAPANESE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOWEL;

AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34047259020     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2535806     Document Type: Article

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