Effects of obstruent consonants on fundamental frequency at vowel onset in English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 425-441

  Hanson, Helen M ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (FF); VOCAL FOLDS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 58649122660     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3021306     Document Type: Article

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