Soprano singing in gibbons

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-355

  Koda, Hiroki ^a   Nishimura, Takeshi ^a   Tokuda, Isao T ^b   Oyakawa, Chisako ^c   Nihonmatsu, Toshikuni ^d   Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Fukuchiyama City Zoo   (Japan)

Author keywords

acoustic simulation; gibbon song; heliox vocalization; human speech; source filter theory

Indexed keywords

HELIUM;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HYLOBATIDAE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGING; SOUND PRESSURE; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HELIUM; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; LARYNX; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SINGING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84867575797     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22124     Document Type: Article

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