Longitudinal trends in speech tempo: The case of Queen Beatrix

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Quené, Hugo ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHONATION; PUBLIC FIGURE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHONATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84878897584     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4802892     Document Type: Article

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