Paralinguistic mechanisms of production in human "beatboxing": A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1043-1054

  Proctor, Michael ^a   Bresch, Erik ^b   Byrd, Dani ^c   Nayak, Krishna ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO AND VIDEO; FRAME RATE; GLOBAL DYNAMICS; HUMAN SPEECH; MUSICAL PERFORMANCE; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SOUND EFFECTS; SOUND PRODUCTION; VOCAL-TRACTS;

LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARYNX; MALE; MUSIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84873379120     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4773865     Document Type: Article

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