Reliability, stability, and sensitivity to change and impairment in acoustic measures of timing and frequency

Journal of Voice

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-149

  Vogel, Adam P ^a,b   Fletcher, Janet ^a   Snyder, Peter J ^c   Fredrickson, Amy ^d   Maruff, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CogState Limited ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; CNS; Reliability; Sensitivity to change; Sensitivity to impairment Lombard; Speech; Stability; Variation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DYSARTHRIA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; READING; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOICE CHANGE; VOWEL;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 79951945920     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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