The pitch levels of female speech in two Chinese villages

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Deutsch, Diana ^a   Le, Jinghong ^b   Shen, Jing ^a   Henthorn, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG-TERM EXPOSURES; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; PITCH VALUES; REMOTE AREAS;

STANDARDS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549097689     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3113892     Document Type: Article

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