Voice pitch characteristics of Cantonese and English produced by Cantonese-English bilingual children

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-236

  Ng, Manwa L ^a   Hsueh, Gigi ^b   Sam Leung, Cheung Shing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Hong Kong Institute of Education ^*

Author keywords

Acoustics; Bilingualism; Cantonese English; Speaking F0; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951259744     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549501003721080     Document Type: Article

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