Impact of Muscle Tension Dysphonia on Tonal Pitch Target Implementation in Vietnamese Female Teachers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 690-698

  Nguyen, Duong Duy ^a,b   Kenny, Dianna T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Thai Nguyen General Central Hospital   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Muscle tension dysphonia; Pitch change; Teachers; Tonal language; Vietnamese tones

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNX MUSCLE; MUSCLE TENSION DYSPHONIA; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RATE; TEACHER; TIME; VIET NAM; VOICE;

ADULT; DYSPHONIA; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350575456     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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