The structure of vocal sounds produced with the mouth closed or with the mouth open in treefrogs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2895-2902

  Gridi Papp, Marcos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DISTRESS CALLS; EUTHANIZED FROGS; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; VOCAL SAC;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; LARYNX; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; LARYNX; LUNG; MALE; MOUTH; OKLAHOMA; PHONATION; PRESSURE; RANIDAE; SOUND; TEXAS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 43549099045     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2897001     Document Type: Article

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