Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 93-101 , January 2010

The Effect of Musical Background on Judgments of Dysphonia

,Accepted 30 April 2008.

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 Portions of this paper were presented at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA, November 2007.

PII: S0892-1997(08)00070-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.04.008

Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 93-101 , January 2010

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