Subglottal coupling and its influence on vowel formants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1735-1745

  Chi, Xuemin ^a   Sonderegger, Morgan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; GAIN CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COUPLING EFFECTS; RESONATOR MODELS; SUBGLOTTAL WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; GLOTTIS; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH RATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOUTH; PHONATION; PHONETICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 35248848400     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756793     Document Type: Article

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