An investigation of voice quality in individuals with inherited elastin gene abnormalities

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 199-213

  Watts, Christopher R ^a   Awan, Shaheen N ^b   Marler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human elastin gene; SVAS; Voice quality; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC STENOSIS, SUPRAVALVULAR; ELASTIN; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 40349089135     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701803361     Document Type: Article

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