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The VoQS System for the Transcription of Voice Quality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Martin J. Ball ,
John Esling  and
Craig Dickson
Martin J. Ball
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural and Communication Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB. N. Ireland
John Esling
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.CanadaV8W 3P4
Craig Dickson
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.CanadaV8W 3P4
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While the history of interest in voice quality dates back at least as far as Henry Sweet (e.g. 1890), there was for many years little agreement on how to classify voice quality or how to transcribe it as part of a phonetic transcription. Indeed, there is not even agreement on precisely what the term covers in that it is often restricted to aspects of voice quality derived from vocal fold activity, rather than the fuller meaning which encompasses features derived from supralaryngeal settings of the articulators. Authors such as Nolan (1983) have used the phrase long-term quality as an alternative; however, in this article we will retain the traditional term but with a wide application to account for voice quality derived from airflow features, vocal fold activity, and supralaryngeal activity.

Type
Phonetic Representation
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 71 - 80
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1995

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