A magnetic resonance imaging-based articulatory and acoustic study of "retroflex" and "bunched" American English /r/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4466-4481

  Zhou, Xinhui ^a   Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a   Boyce, Suzanne ^b   Tiede, Mark ^c   Holland, Christy ^d   Choe, Ann ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ATOMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MOTION PICTURES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

(MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); AMERICAN ENGLISH; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); MAGNETIC (CE); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUARTER WAVELENGTH; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; SPEECH RECORDINGS; VOCAL TRACT MODELS; VOCAL TRACTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE; UNITED STATES; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 44949091403     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2902168     Document Type: Article

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