Where Does Your Voice Come From? Phonation and Glottal States
How do our throats work to make different kinds of sounds? What different settings for our vocal folds do we have? In this week's episode, we talk about phonation and glottal states: how air interacts with our anatomy to create waves, what settings we have besides voiced, voiceless, and closed completely, and how these other settings, breathy and creaky voice, are used across languages. And how they're all totally fine and cool!
We had occasional problems with the audio in this episode, leading to some redubbing being necessary. We'll do better in the future!
This is Topic #53!
This week's tag language: Cantonese!
Last episode:
Raising the Bar: Control vs. Raising Verbs: • What Changes in a Sentence When We Swap Ve...
Other of our phonetics videos:
The Periodic Table of Speech Sounds: The International Phonetic Alphabet: • The International Phonetic Alphabet
Vowel Movements: How We Make Vowels: • Vowels and the IPA
Forming Formants: How We Shape Sound Waves: • How Do We Change Our Mouths to Shape Waves...
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Sources:
As with most of our phonetics videos, the information for this video comes primarily from Henry Rogers's book The Sounds of Language, and Kenneth Stevens's book Acoustic Phonetics. Some other interesting links around this topic:
A defense of creaky voice in young women: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/arch...
Long-term presence of creaky voice in English speech, and where it shows up: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/...
A cool program that lets you play with the vocal tract and see how the acoustics change: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/vt...
A fairly technical look at different kinds of phonation and what's happening with the folds: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/insti...
Discussion of the demonizing of creaky voice, and why it's wrong: http://linguisticanthropology.org/blo...
Looking forward to next week!