Investigating the relationship between average speaker fundamental frequency and acoustic vowel space size

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2965-2974

  Weirich, Melanie ^a   Simpson, Adrian ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; EUCLIDIAN DISTANCE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INTER-HARMONICS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES; SIZE AND SHAPE; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885414910     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4818891     Document Type: Article

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