Voice Quality - The Laryngeal Articulator Model

Offers a new model of vocal tract articulation that explains laryngeal and oral voice quality, both auditorily and visually, through language examples and familiar voices.

List of contents

1. Voice and voice quality; 2. Voice quality classification; 3. Instrumental case studies and computational simulations of voice quality; 4. Linguistic, paralinguistic and extralinguistic illustrations of voice quality; 5. Phonological implications of voice quality theory; 6. Infant acquisition of speech and voice quality; 7. Clinical illustrations of voice quality; 8. Laryngeal articulation and voice quality in sound change, language ontogeny.

About the author

John H. Esling is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.Scott R. Moisik is Assistant Professor in the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Allison Benner is Humanities and Fine Arts Co-op Coordinator at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.Lise Crevier-Buchman is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), Paris.

Summary

Examines how accents differ in 'voice quality' across languages and presents a new framework for its analysis with a revised model of lower-vocal-tract articulation, focusing on the larynx in speech. It will appeal to students and researchers in linguistics, phonetics, child language, speech science, clinical linguistics, and forensic phonetics.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Benner, Allison (University of Victoria Benner, Lise Crevier-Buchman, Lise (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Crevier-Buchman, John H Esling, John H. Esling, John H. (University of Victoria Esling, Scott R Moisik, Scott R. Moisik, Scott R. (Nanyang Technological University Moisik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108498425
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49842-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics