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9 - Voice Quality

from Section II - Prosodic Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2021

By
John H. Esling  and
Scott R. Moisik
Edited by
Rachael-Anne Knight  and
Jane Setter
Rachael-Anne Knight
Affiliation:
City, University of London
Jane Setter
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Summary

This chapter examines voice quality as the long-term, relatively constant or habitually recurring phonetic characteristics of an individual’s speech. The identification of voice quality settings relates the auditory/acoustic components of the voice quality strand of an individual’s accent (i.e. habitual manner of speaking) to the articulatory postures or movements that shape speech sound quality over the long term. An essential generator of long-term quality is the larynx, producing sustained vibrations and laryngeal articulatory resonances that interact with vowel quality and tonal quality. Various instrumental phonetic procedures have been developed to observe postural settings of the parts of the vocal tract. The images from these experimental observations have been incorporated into instructional tools for teaching and learning about voice quality settings and the movements of the laryngeal articulatory mechanism in particular.

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voice qualitylong-term settingarticulatory settingaccentphonation phonatory qualityvocal registerlarynxlaryngeal articulatoriPA Phonetics
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The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics , pp. 237 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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