Mathematics of pulsed vocalizations with application to killer whale biphonation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2875-2883

  Brown, Judith C ^a,b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATLAB; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BIPHONATION; HARMONIC INTERVAL; MARINE BIOACOUSTICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; KILLER WHALE; MATHEMATICS; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; PHONATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 43549113606     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2890745     Document Type: Article

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