Age-Related Changes in Long-Term Average Spectra of Children's Voices

Journal of Voice

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 658-670

  Sergeant, Desmond ^a   Welch, Graham Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Children; LTAS; Singing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG CAPACITY; MALE; SINGING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOICE;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MUSIC; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 55549087229     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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