New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the linguistics community. I hadn't realized how pervasive vocal fry had become. Driver running from cops slams into innocent family, American, United Airlines furlough thousands, 29-year-old woman reported missing in west Houston, All Game 2 runs scored by past and present Astros, Montgomery Co. man charged with child sex assault, 5-year-old sends Baby Yoda to help crews with wildfires, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend mourning loss of child to miscarriage, One person shot and killed at Clear Lake gas station, Senate approves bill to avoid government shutdown, sending it to Trump, Mayor Turner announces full police reform changes, Pelosi and Mnuchin have 'extensive' talks on COVID-19 relief. Sometimes when reading comments on these types of articles, I forget I'm in r/linguistics. The vocal fry register is as low as the human voice can go. Our subreddit is full of pseudo-linguists and grammarians who think they know what linguistics is, but really don't. Vocal fry is an effect. I'm no linguist, but if I had to choose an archetypal model, I'd go with Daria. Copyright © 2020 KTRK-TV. I see this A LOT in my patients.
Robin Tunney, who plays Agent Teresa Lisbon on The Mentalist, does the sexy voice/creaky voice quite a bit. Valspeak is, like, short for the way Valley Girls talk that was, like, … Men can do it, and so can women. Speech pathologist specializing in voice disorders here. Isn't this basically how most people talk when they are speaking just above a whisper, regardless of how they talk when speaking at a normal volume? Then when we speak, those cords rub together and the vibration creates sound. Vocal fry, known among linguists as creaky voice, is a specific type of phonation caused by slackening the vocal cords. Judging by their comments, they're not linguists - otherwise having a name for it wouldn't be new to them. I'd probably ignore the text diatribe. There are many languages that use creaky voice phonemically, meaning that a creaky [a] and a non-creaky [a] change the meaning of a word. I listened to the sample from the article but can't remember a situation where I actually heard it. It’s even a technical tool. When we breathe, our vocal cords separate. It's one of the reasons I watch her show all the time.
), I just listened to Ke$ha talking about recording a Bob Dylan song. Press J to jump to the feed. "Annoying," "distracting," "obnoxious," "dumb"....When did linguists start judging types of phonation? It's depressing, though, to come to r/linguistics and see run-of-the-mill language peevery.
What you're experiencing in your patients isn't a voice disorder. To be fair, only a very small percentage of the people here in r/linguistics actually hold degrees in linguistics. * what form does it take? * how is meaning constructed? This type of vocal fry most commonly occurs at the end of phrases, although I have known a few women who use this register in about 50% of their speech. Within the first 45 seconds, listen to the way she says "interesting", "ride", and "I got a puppy". * how is it structured? She pretty much goes in and out the entire time, but those are some of the more salient examples. In regular speech, the vocal cords vibrate to release a steady stream of air, but in creaky voice the lax cords vibrate irregularly, flapping open and closed so that air comes out in audible spurts. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Phonetics | Phonology | Documentation | Prosody, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6z6YPtwQuPk#t=185s, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/amnesty-international-unveils-bob-dylan-tribute-in-honor-of-its-50th-anniversary-20111210#ixzz1g9VqK7tS. If you speak without enough breath, your vocal cords cannot rub together and they create a creaky, hollow sound. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/amnesty-international-unveils-bob-dylan-tribute-in-honor-of-its-50th-anniversary-20111210#ixzz1g9VqK7tS. All Rights Reserved.
The NPR link towards the bottom with Alexi Speigel is imho a perfect example of it.
I see this A LOT in my patients. * how is it produced? Linguist specializing in phonetics here. Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6z6YPtwQuPk#t=185s, (Actual linguists please correct me if I'm wrong. Why? Recent research into vocal fry suggests that women do indeed have a tougher go of it than men when their voices slip into a lower register. **lin⋅guis⋅tics**: the scientific study of human *language*
Singers in search of some serious bass, or a specific rock or country sound, can put the “croak” of vocal fry to good work. EDIT: Might be tricky, but you can compare the word "interesting" at 0:09 to the one at 0:26. It's likely that you don't hear it because it is SO common that it doesn't even register as a unique pattern. This page has a ton of example recordings collected from various sources. It's a newly rising trend in the ever-changing speech system we lovingly call English. And on a personal note, that creaky Britney Spears-ish voice is grating to my ears! The opposite of upspeak, but having the same negative effect on others.
However, given its apparent prevalence, I can't imagine I haven't heard it. The artificial, gravelly, voice-lowering way to speak that makes you sound like a ditz. A large number of upwardly mobile American females also use vocal fry, but in their everyday speech.
Here is a sample. Vocal fry occurs when there is not enough breath being pushed through the vocal cords. Can anyone provide a real-life example of this? As the article says, using it at the end of a sentence occasionally won't be too hard on your vocal folds, but try and talk in the "creaky voice" all day and you will end up w/ some serious vocal fatigue and soreness. Vocal fry is a vocal register.
Such language speakers don't have any more issues with vocal fatigue than, say, Standard American English speakers.
In fact, overuse of vocal (or glottal) fry can result in voice issues such as muscle tension dysphonia (best description I could find). She does it in just about every sentence. "Vocal Fry", as it's called, has become quite the talker and is often considered an annoying trend. Vocal fry refers to a low, glottal, animal-like sound that speech pathologists consider a vocal disorder. No one really uses it all the time. It also makes you much cooler apparently, although some of us are beyond saving on that front. The clip from Date Night where Tina Fey mocks the voice is interesting. You can observe this in the video when she says "labradoodle" and "thirty-five pounds". Both "doodle" and "pounds" are fry. The first exhibits fry, the second does not. Speech pathologist specializing in voice disorders here.