Breathy voice during nasality: A cross-linguistic study

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 110-121

  Garellek, Marc ^a   Ritchart, Amanda ^a   Kuang, Jianjing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Nasality; Phonation; Sound change; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NASALITY; PHONATION; SOUND; VOICE; VOWEL;

EID: 84994035382     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2016.09.001     Document Type: Article

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