Mumbling: Macho or morphology?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2016, Pages S1587-S1595

  Weirich, Melanie ^a,b   Fuchs, Susanne ^a   Simpson, Adrian ^c   Winkler, Ralf ^a   Perrier, Pascal ^d,e  

^a Centre for General Linguistics   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAW; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHONETICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006994402     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-15-0040     Document Type: Article

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