The effect of oral articulation on the acoustic characteristics of nasalized vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2543-2553

  Rong, Panying ^a   Kuehn, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AMERICAN ENGLISH; ENGLISH VOWELS; RELATIVE TIMING; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOCAL TRACT AREA;

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; TIME; VELOPHARYNGEAL SPHINCTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; NASAL CAVITY; PHONATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; VELOPHARYNGEAL SPHINCTER;

EID: 77954063742     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3294486     Document Type: Article

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