from Section II - Prosodic Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2021
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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