Predicted Singers' Vocal Fold Lengths and Voice Classification-A Study of X-Ray Morphological Measures

Journal of Voice

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 408-413

  Roers, Friederike ^a   Mürbe, Dirk ^a   Sundberg, Johan ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Singing; Vocal fold length; Voice classification; X ray measures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; SPINE; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORD; VOICE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; SPINE; THYROID CARTILAGE; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649093975     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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