An Exploration of Skin Acceleration Level as a Measure of Phonatory Function in Singing

Journal of Voice

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-22

  Lamarche, Anick ^a   Ternström, Sten ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Across tone fluctuations; Differences between singing and speech; Phonetogram; Singing voice; Skin acceleration level; Vocal function; Vowel variation

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LARYNGOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; SINGING; SKIN ACCELERATION LEVEL; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHONATION; PRESSURE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 37349110982     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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