Measuring larynx movement using the thyroumbrometer

Ewan, William G.; Krones, Robert

doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(19)31302-6

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“…The larynx does not remain in a stable vertical orientation when we speak (Esling, 1999;Ewan & Krones, 1974;Honda, Hirai, Masaki, & Shimada, 1999;Moisik, Lin, & Esling, 2014) but rather shows considerable variation in height and its relationship to nearby structures, especially the hyoid bone. To examine extrinsic larynx posture, wherever possible, each simulation target was conducted in five fixed hyo-laryngeal contexts; these are listed in Table 2 along with the plot markers used to represent them.…”

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The Quantal Larynx: The Stable Regions of Laryngeal Biomechanics and Implications for Speech Production

Moisik

Gick

2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Section: Model Evaluationmentioning

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The Quantal Larynx: The Stable Regions of Laryngeal Biomechanics and Implications for Speech Production

Moisik

Gick

2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…Larynx lowering, required to initiate the glottalic airstream mechanism, is the single most commonly cited property in definitions of implosives in the current literature. However, it has been well established since the study of Ewan and Krones (1974) that larynx lowering is not unique to implosives, but is regularly used to maintain voicing in ordinary voiced pulmonic stops.…”

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“…It can be achieved by several different but complementary maneuvers, including larynx lowering, tongue root advancement, relaxation of the soft tissues of the vocal tract walls, raising of the velum, shifting of the oral closure forward to expand cavity size longitudinally, and lowering of the jaw (see e.g. Ewan and Krones 1974, Bell-Berti 1975, Catford 1977Ohala and Riordan 1979;Westbury 1983, Ladefoged andMaddieson 1996;Stevens 1998). Most of these mechanisms, including larynx lowering, have been observed in the production of "ordinary" voiced obstruents in better-studied languages such as English and French, often in combination.…”

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Explosives, implosives and nonexplosives: The linguistic function of air pressure differences in stops

Clements

Osu²

Laboratory Phonology 7

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Nonexplosive stops, including implosives and other stops regularly lacking an explosive release burst, occur in roughly 20% of the world's languages, yet their phonological and phonetic properties are still poorly understood. This paper seeks to determine the phonological feature that characterizes this class of sounds. The classical definition of implosives in terms of the ingressive glottalic airstream mechanism raises a number of problems and does not generalize to other types of nonexplosives. It is proposed here instead that the feature underlying the class of nonexplosive stops as a whole is nonobstruence, defined as the absence of posi ti ve oral ai r pressure duri ng occl usi on. Thi s def i ni ti on i s shown to extend to a previously undocumented type of nonexplosive stop found in Ikwere, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Nigeria. In this language, the phonemically contrastive nonexplosive bilabial stops [ ' ], though resembling implosives in certain respects, are produced with no lowering of the larynx, nor in the case of [ ], any implosion at release. A study of the acoustic, articulatory and aerodynamic properties of these sounds shows that they satisfy the definition of nonobstruent stops. It is finally suggested that apparently contradictory aspects of the phonological patterning of nonexplosive stops across languages can be explained if they are viewed as both nonobstruents and nonsonorants. In this view, phonological feature theory requires both articulatory features such as [±obstruent] and acoustic features such as [±sonorant].

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“…Early work on the physiology of Southeast Asian tones was conducted using purpose‐built instruments such as the thyroumbrometer (Ewan and Krones ) and cricothyrometer (Gandour and Maddieson ), both designed to measure larynx height displacement. Pioneering electromyographic research on Thai was also undertaken in the early 1970s (Erickson ; ; Erickson and Abramson ), but there is as far as we know no similar work on any other Southeast Asian language (but see Sagart et al .…”

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Tone and Phonation in Southeast Asian Languages

Brunelle

Kirby

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the common features shared by many languages of the area is tone: several major national languages of the region have large tone inventories and complex tone contours. In this paper, we suggest a more fine-grained view. We show that in addition to a large number of atonal languages, the tone languages of the region are actually far more diverse than usually assumed, and employ phonation type contrasts at least as often as pitch. Along the same lines, we argue that concepts such as tone and register, while descriptively useful, can obscure important underlying similarities and impede our understanding of the behavior of phonetic properties, typological regularities, and diachrony. We finally draw the reader's attention to some issues of current interest in the study of tone and phonation in Southeast Asia and describe some technical developments that are likely to allow researchers to address new lines of research in years to come.

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Measuring larynx movement using the thyroumbrometer

Cited by 69 publications

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The Quantal Larynx: The Stable Regions of Laryngeal Biomechanics and Implications for Speech Production

The Quantal Larynx: The Stable Regions of Laryngeal Biomechanics and Implications for Speech Production

Explosives, implosives and nonexplosives: The linguistic function of air pressure differences in stops

Tone and Phonation in Southeast Asian Languages

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