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Research Article| Volume 3, ISSUE 4, P294-305, December 1989

Glottal airflow and transglottal air pressure measurements for male and female speakers in low, normal, and high pitch

  • Eva B. Holmberg
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    Address correspondence and reprint requests to E. B. Holmberg at Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bldg. 36, Rm. 521, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
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    Department of Communication Disorders, Boston University, Boston, U.S.A.

    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Department of Phonetics, Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Robert E. Hillman
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    Department of Communication Disorders, Boston University, Boston, U.S.A.

    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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  • Joseph S. Perkell
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    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0892-1997(89)80051-7
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      Summary

      Measurements on the inverse filtered airflow waveform and of estimated average transglottal pressure and glottal airflow were made from syllable sequences in low, normal, and high pitch for 25 male and 20 female speakers. Correlation analyses indicated that several of the airflow measurements were more directly related to voice intensity than to fundamental frequency (F0). Results suggested that pressure may have different influences in low and high pitch in this speech task. It is suggested that unexpected results of increased pressure in low pitch were related to maintaining voice quality, that is, avoiding vocal fry. In high pitch, the increased pressure may serve to maintain vocal fold vibration. The findings suggested different underlying laryngeal mechanisms and vocal adjustments for increasing and decreasing F0 from normal pitch.
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      Footnotes

      *Presented in part at The 17th Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, New York, June, 1988.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0892-1997(89)80051-7

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      © 1989 Raven Press, Ltd., New York. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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