Patterns of acquisition of native voice onset time in English-learning children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1180-1191

  Lowenstein, Joanna H ^a   Nittrouer, Susan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LINGUISTICS; STANDARDS;

ARTICULATORY GESTURES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NATIVE LANGUAGES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; VOCAL TRACTS; VOICE ONSET TIME;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOCAL CORD; VOICE ONSET TIME;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LARYNX; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 49249114168     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2945118     Document Type: Article

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