On the physiology of voice production in South-Siberian throat singing : analysis of acoustic and electrophysiological evidences / Sven Grawunder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grawunder, Sven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voice--Physiology.

Voice.

Throat singing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Frank & Timme, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long description: This book presents the first field-work based phonetic study focussing such extraordinary phonatory outcomes as occur in the context of South-Siberian throat singing. In throat singing specific voice production types serve as source, which are subject to various ways of formant shaping, merging, adjustment, and reinforcement, all of which function to enhance individual harmonics. Two main types are proposed for voice production in South-Siberian throat singing: a voice production by means of the vocal folds featuring a constriction of the aryepiglottic sphincter, and a voice production with involvement of the ventricular folds. Furthermore a simple schematic model for the articulation types in throat singing is suggested. One of the basic questions throughout this study is whether the phenomenon of throat singing shows fairly clear regional variants in different parts of southern or whether the variation is chiefly a matter of individual styles.

Biographical note: Sven Grawunder studied Speech Science, German Linguistics and Phonetics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has conducted ethnomusicological, phonetic and linguistic field work in language documentation projects in Siberia, India and Africa. Currently he works as a postdoc researcher at the linguistics department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Contents:

""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""Overview""; ""Symbols, Abbreviations and Transliteration""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Subject Context""; ""Throat Singing (ThS)""; ""Overtone Singing (OtS)""; ""Theoretical Context Of Voice Description""; ""Perspectives, Layers and Definitions""; ""Principles of Phonation""; ""Voice Production

Source and Vocal Tract""; ""Voice Quality (VQ)""; ""Research Goals""; ""SUBJECT""; ""Physiological & Acoustical Correlates of ThS Phonatory Qualities""; ""Styles in South-Siberian Throat Singing

Ethnomusicological vs. Phonetic Perspective""

""Physiological Phonetics of Throat Singing""""Voice Sources in Throat Singing""; ""Vocal Tract in Throat Singing""; ""Specific Anatomy of Certain Laryngeal Structures""; ""Basic Functional Anatomy of the Larynx""; ""Ventricular Fold and Ventricular Voice""; ""Aryepiglottic Fold (plica aryepiglottica)""; ""Aryepiglottic Sphincter (AES)""; ""Physical Examination of the Lower Vocal Tract in Throat Singing""; ""Preliminary Laryngoscopic Examination of Throat Singing""; ""Additional Recordings of Fibre Endoscopic Examination of Throat Singing""

""Vocal Tract Shape Investigations

Articulation of ``Reinforced Harmonics'' in Throat Singing""""Observable Techniques or Methods of ``Overtone Articulation''""; ""Phonation Modes and Articulation Types in Throat Singing""; ""Physical Observations on Singers""; ""Investigations using X-ray Videofluoroscopy ""; ""Investigations using Ultrasound""; ""MRI Investigation""; ""Discussion of VPTs and Laryngeal Settings in Throat Singing""; ""Posterior-Anterior Compression, Supraglottal Constriction""; ""Ventricular Fold Mechanism (VTF)

Medial Compression of Supraglottal Constriction""

""Double Source Phonation or Diplophonic Phonation""""Discussion of Vocal Tract Articulation""; ""HYPOTHESES & Expectations""; ""METHOD

Physioacoustical Analysis of Voice Production in ThS""; ""Preliminary Considerations

Why do we need field data of ThS?""; ""Specific Non-Invasive Methodology for Voice Investigation in Field Work""; ""Field Work within Voice Research""; ""Field Conditions in Southern Siberia""; ""Invasivity, Manageability, and Costs""; ""3-Channel-Recording of Voice, EGG, and Subglottal Pressure (Inverse Filtering)""; ""Subject Recruitment""

""Subject Tasks and Raw Data Corpus Description""""Voice (Source) Analysis Design""; ""Preparation and Data Pre-Analysis""; ""Physio-Acoustic Analysis Methods""; ""RESULTS""; ""Analysis and Findings in the Voice Signal (Vx)""; ""Vx-signal Corpus Description""; ""Vx Waveform Shapes and Patterns""; ""Vx Waveform Perturbations""; ""Formants, Bandwidths and Reinforced Harmonics""; ""Glottal Characteristics in the spectra (H1-H2, H1-A1, H1-A3 etc.)""; ""Average Spectral Characteristics""; ""Findings in Inverse Filtering Curves""; ""Analysis and Findings for Lx""; ""Sub-Corpus Description""

""Findings in EGG and DEGG Wave Shapes (incl. Gx)""

Notes:

Dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86596-995-X

OCLC:

904957323