Prosodic boundaries in alaryngeal speech

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-231

  van Rossum, M A ^a   Quene H ^b   Nooteboom, S G ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic analyses; Alaryngeal speech; Perception; Prosodic boundaries

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS SPEECH; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH, ESOPHAGEAL;

EID: 40349108868     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701847160     Document Type: Article

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