Sex-Related Acoustic Changes in Voiceless English Fricatives.
This investigation is a comprehensive acoustic study of 4 voiceless fricatives (/f θ s f /) in English produced by adults and pre-and postpubescent children aged 6-14 years. Vowel duration, amplitude, and several different spectral measures (including spectral tilt and spectral moments) were examine...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 753 - 766 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
August 2005
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