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Term referring to the permanently present quality of voice of a particular speaker. An individual's voice quality is based on the combination of factors such as pitch level, loudness, tempo, [[timbre]], breathiness, tenseness, nasality, hoarseness, etc. Voice quality may also have a contrastive function in the phonological system of a language. Breathiness, for example, is phonemic for vowels in Gujarati and for stops in Igbo (Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996) | Term referring to the permanently present quality of voice of a particular speaker. An individual's voice quality is based on the combination of factors such as pitch level, loudness, tempo, [[timbre]], breathiness, tenseness, nasality, hoarseness, etc. Voice quality may also have a contrastive function in the phonological system of a language. Breathiness, for example, is phonemic for vowels in Gujarati and for stops in Igbo (Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996) | ||
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* [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Voice+quality&lemmacode=1355 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | * [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Voice+quality&lemmacode=1355 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | ||
* [http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13.htm More about voice quality] | * [http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13.htm More about voice quality] | ||
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* Ladefoged, P. & Maddieson, I. 1996. ''The Sounds of the World's Languages,'' Cambridge, MA: Blackwell | * Ladefoged, P. & Maddieson, I. 1996. ''The Sounds of the World's Languages,'' Cambridge, MA: Blackwell | ||
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Definition
Term referring to the permanently present quality of voice of a particular speaker. An individual's voice quality is based on the combination of factors such as pitch level, loudness, tempo, timbre, breathiness, tenseness, nasality, hoarseness, etc. Voice quality may also have a contrastive function in the phonological system of a language. Breathiness, for example, is phonemic for vowels in Gujarati and for stops in Igbo (Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996)
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- Ladefoged, P. & Maddieson, I. 1996. The Sounds of the World's Languages, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
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