Stop consonant voicing and intraoral pressure contours in women and children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1077-1088

  Koenig, Laura L ^a,b   Lucero, Jorge C ^c  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; PRESSURE CONTROL; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

INTRAORAL PRESSURE CONTOURS; PARADOXICAL VALUESS; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH AERODYNAMICS; STOP CONSONANT VOICING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSONANT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; MEASUREMENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AIR; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LARYNX; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; PHARYNX; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 38849095319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2828065     Document Type: Article

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