Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 57-71 , January 2010

The Effect of an Artificially Lengthened Vocal Tract on Estimated Glottal Contact Quotient in Untrained Male Voices

  • Christopher S. Gaskill

      Affiliations

    • Department of Communicative Disorders, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Christopher S. Gaskill, PhD, Department of Communicative Disorders, The University of Alabama, Box 870242, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
    • ,
  • Molly L. Erickson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

,Accepted 9 May 2008.

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 This paper was presented at the 35th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, June 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

PII: S0892-1997(08)00074-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.05.004

Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 57-71 , January 2010

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