Acoustic measures of the voices of older singers and nonsingers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 341-350

  Prakup, Barbara ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Nonsingers; Singers; Voice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; VOWEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MUSIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84860482512     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: 18734588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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