- Harsh voice
Harsh voice, also called ventricular voice or (in some high-tone registers) pressed voice, is the production of speech sounds (typically
vowel s) with a constricted laryngeal cavity, which generally involvesepiglottal co-articulation. Harsh voice includes the use of theventricular folds (the false vocal cords) to damp theglottis in a way similar to what happens when a person talks while lifting a heavy load, or, if the sound is voiceless, like clearing one's throat. It contrasts withfaucalized voice , which involves the expansion of the larynx.When the epiglottal co-articulation becomes a trill, the vowels are called strident.
There is no symbol for harsh voice in the IPA. Diacritics seen in the literature include the under-tilde used for
creaky voice , the double under-tilde used as the "ad hoc" diacritic for strident vowels, which may be allophonic with harsh voice, and an "ad hoc" underline. In theExtensions to the IPA , the symbol is !, as in IPA| [a!] , but this is ambiguous with the release ofalveolar click .The
Bai language has both harsh ("pressed") and strident vowels as part of its register system, but they are not contrastive.The Bor dialect of Dinka has contrastive modal, breathy, faucalized, and harsh voice in its vowels, as well as three tones. The "ad hoc" diacritics employed in the literature are a subscript double quotation mark for faucalized voice, IPA| [a͈] , and underlining for harsh voice, IPA| [a̱] . Examples are,
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overtone singing
*Death growl References
*cite journal
last = Edmondson
first = Jerold A.
coauthors = John H. Esling
title = The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register, and stress: laryngoscopic case studies
publisher = Cambridge University Press
journal = Phonology
volume = 23
pages = 157-191
date = 2005
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