Timbral influences on vocal pitch-matching accuracy

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 74-82

  Watts, Christopher R ^a   Hall, Michael D ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perception; Pitch matching; Timbre; Voice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 46749133199     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430802028434     Document Type: Article

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