phonation
Noun
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The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.
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a singer takes good care of his voice
the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations
A series of alveolar plosives ranging from an open to a closed glottis phonation are: Additional diacritics are provided by the Extensions to the IPA for speech pathology.
If the arytenoid cartiledges are parted to admit turbulent airflow, the result is whisper phonation if the vocal folds are adducted, and whispery voice phonation (murmur) if the vocal folds vibrate modally.
For consonants, the place of articulation and the degree of phonation of voicing are considered separately from manner, as being independent parameters.
Elements of laryngeal articulation or phonation may occur widely in the world's languages as phonetic detail even when not phonemically contrastive.