University Of California Working Papers In Phonetics, Volume 61, Issue July (1985-07). pp. 72-78.
Language:
English
Abstract:
It has been argued that breathy, as opposed to modal or normal voice, has proportionately more energy at the fundamental, & that phonation types can be characterized by overall spectral tilt of the glottal flow spectrum. The question of whether this spectral tilt can be measured was studied in an examination of data collected from 3 adult M Hmong speakers, 2 Burmese speakers, & 9 speakers of !Xoo. Various techniques for determining formant bandwidths are evaluated. It is shown that spectral tilt can be used to characterize normal, but not breathy, phonation. Figures, References. B. Annesser Murray