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Aeroacoustics of speech and vocal fold vibration

McGowan, R.S. & Howe, M.S. (submitted, revised). Source-tract interaction with prescribed vocal fold motion. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (in press). Glottis-interior sources. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2011). Production of sound by unsteady throttling flow into a resonant cavity, with application to voiced speech. J. Fluid Mech., 672, 428-450.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2011). On the generalised Fant equation. J. Sound Vib., 330, 3123-3140.

McGowan, R.S. & Howe, M.S. (2010). Comments on single-mass models of vocal fold vibration. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127, EL215-EL221.

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McGowan, R.S. & Howe, M.S. (2010). Influence of the ventricular folds on a voice source with specified vocal fold motion. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127. 1519-1527.

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Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2010). On the single-mass model of the vocal folds. Fluid Dyn. Res., 42., 1-16.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2009). Analysis of flow-structure coupling in a mechanical model of the vocal folds and the subglottal system. J. Fluids and Structures, 25. 1299-1317.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2007). Sound generated by aerodynamic sources near a deformable body, with application to voiced speech. J. Fluid Mech., 592. 367-392.

McGowan, R.S. & Howe, M.S. (2007). Compact Green's functions extend the acoustic theory of speech production. Journal of Phonetics, 35. 259-270.

Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2005). Aeroacoustics of [s]. Proc. R. Soc. A, 461. 1005-1028.

Luong, T., Howe, M.S. & McGowan, R.S. (2005). On the Rayleigh conductivity of a bias-flow aperture. J. Fluids and Structures, 21. 769-778.

The inverse problem in speech production

McGowan, R.S. & Berger, M.A. (2009). Acoustic-articulatory mapping in vowels by locally weighted regression. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 126(4). pp. 2011-2032.

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McGowan, R.S. (2006). Perception of synthetic vowel exemplars of 4 year old children and estimation of their corresponding vocal tract shapes. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120(5). pp. 2850-2858.

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Children's speech production

Denny, M. & McGowan, R.S. (in press). Implications of anatomical and neuromuscular development for the acquisition of lingual control for speech production: A review. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

McGowan, R.S., Nittrouer, S., & Chenausky, K. (2008). Speech Production in 12-Month-Old Children With and Without Hearing Loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 879-888.

See McGowan (2006) under The inverse problem in speech production.

McGowan, R.S., Nittrouer, S., & Manning, C.J. (2004). Development of [ɹ] in young, Midwestern, American children. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115. pp. 871-884.

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Experimental phonetics
 
Jackson, M.T.-T. & McGowan, R.S. (2010). A method for finding constrictions in high front vowels. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127 . EL6-EL12.
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Jackson, M.T.-T. & McGowan, R.S. (2008). Predicting midsagittal pharyngeal dimensions from measures of anterior tongue position in Swedish vowels: Statistical considerations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123. 336-346.

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McGowan, R.S. (2004). Secant lines in a preliminary study of phonetic reduction of /ɪ/ and /ε/. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116 . pp. 2324-2337.

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Articulatory speech synthesis

McGowan, R.S., Jackson M. T.-T., & Berger, M.A. (in press). Analyses of vocal tract cross-distance to area data: An investigation of a set of vowel images. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. & McGowan, R.S. (2004). Rational approximations of viscous losses in vocal tract acoustic modeling. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115 3195-3201.

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