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College-age males' ability to produce the acoustic properties of an aging voice..
Full Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine college-age males' ability to produce the acoustic properties of the normally aging voice when reading. The 17 subjects (M age=21.13 yr., SD=1.0) selected for this study were undergraduates who were placed into a single group. The procedure involved recording the subjects while reading The Rainbow Passage aloud. The first reading was in the subject's natural speaking voice. During the second reading, the reader imitated the voice of a normally aging 70-yr.-old man. Fundamental frequency and temporal measures were analyzed for each voice sample. Mean scores for each measure were compared for the natural speaking-voice production and the production when imitating the voice of a normally aging 70-yr.-old man. Analysis showed that temporal measures appear to have the most significant influence on subjects' production when imitating the normally aging voice as seen in the overall increase in all temporal measures.
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Author/s: Manning, Robert Kevin (RK); Fucci, Donald (D); Dean, Richard (R);
Affiliation: Ohio University, Athens, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 94 (issue 3 Pt 1) : pp 767-71
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/12/19; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12081279, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: Percept Mot Skills. 2002 Dec;95(3 Pt 1):843-4. (PMID: 12509184)
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