A statistical, formant-pattern model for segregating vowel type and vocal-tract length in developmental formant data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2374-2386

  Turner, Richard E ^a   Walters, Thomas C ^b   Monaghan, Jessica J M ^b   Patterson, Roy D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY SIZES; DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES; FORMANT FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DATUM; GLOTTAL PULSE RATES; INFERENCE MODELS; RESIDUAL MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL INFERENCES; THEORETICAL BASIS; VOCAL TRACTS; VOWEL SOUNDS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ARTICLE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; MOUTH CAVITY; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; PHONETICS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849113779     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3079772     Document Type: Article

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