Sex differences in voice onset time: A developmental study of phonetic context effects in British English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1179-1183

  Whiteside, Sandra P ^a   Henry, Luisa ^a,b   Dobbin, Rachel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Psychology Service for Older People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SEX DIFFERENCES; VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT);

ACOUSTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOICE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONATION; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 4043074147     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1768256     Document Type: Article

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