Phonation

There are many social variation in American English, they are associated with age, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity. Recently, several linguistic trends to investigate the speech of women, one of these is vocal fry. Vocal fry is speech that is very low pitched and creaky sounding shaped by a slow movement of the vocal cords. It considered to be a voice disorder (Tamasi, P132). Also people tend to have a lot of negative attitude towards vocal fry. Creaky voice is been used by movie star Mae

I’m laying down in grass and snow, in the middle of Midnight Forest. Judging by the beams of moonlight coming in through the trees, it must be around midnight. I’m not sure what I’m doing here, but I have a feeling of uncertainty. “Saige.” I hear a whisper from behind me. I whip around, and my eyes scan what I thought was an empty forest. I shake my head and stand up, snowflakes floating off of my winter coat and skirt. I see my breath in the air, and it mesmerizes me for a second. A big clump

Marissa Meyer’s futuristic dystopian novel, Cinder, is set in an advanced society containing large divides between different groups of people including; cyborgs, humans, and Lunars. Cyborgs are often looked down upon as inhuman machines that are held to high expectations though, the majority of cyborgs are partially human. The antagonist, Cinder, is a cyborg who struggles with these divides between people. Because of this, Cinder feels the need to hide her Cyborg self and constantly work to appease

What is Cockney? There is more than one possible answer to this question. It is conventionally used to refer to any person who was born within a certain radius of a church named ‘St. Mary-le-Bow’ and therefore could hear the Bow Bells ringing. In general, it loosely refers to a traditional accent, which is spoken by people from the Londoner working-class. However, the term ‘Cockney’ is informal. Its most extraordinary characteristic is the usage of rhyming schemes to code their language, but then

Congenital Central Hypoventilation & Central Alveolar Hypoventilation Syndromes Introduction Sleep can be simply defined as "a reversible behavioral state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the environment" (Kryger, Roth & Dement). As far as the sleeping disorders are concerned, they involve the difficulties that are associated to sleeping. When an individual has difficulty in falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at wrong times, falling asleep unnecessarily, or shows

Cam Nguyen Research Paper LP_GoNo Experiment Result Section R Studio was used to calculate the statistics in this experiment. We compared participant’s perception of sounds (proportion of voiced responses) with stimuli of different laterality and precursor. A voiced sound is a speech sound produced with the vibration of the vocal cords while devoiced sound is one produced with no vibration of the vocal cord. Data from 19 participants were included in the analysis. Each participant listened to 4

It is often said that laughter is the best medicine. But what if laughter is part of the disease? This phenomena is called Witzelsucht which is a German word that literally translates to “joke addiction”. It results in the patient having a strange compulsion to constantly crack jokes. Witzelsucht is listed in Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary as “a mental condition characteristic of frontal lesions and marked by the making of poor jokes and puns…at which the patient himself is intensely amused”

Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders Hyperfunctional voice disorders are voice problems that happen when uncontrollable tightening (spasm) prevents the vocal cords from working properly. Vocal cords normally move back and forth to make sounds when air passes through the voice box (larynx). If you have a hyperfunctional voice disorder, the area of the brain that controls vocal cord movement does not send the right signals. This causes the vocal cords to spasm. Hyperfunctional voice disorders might also

You can buy a couple small bird safe toys for your canary if you wish, my Grandmother had a small bell attached towards the top of her cage, every once in awhile one of her canaries would peck at it, and seemed the birds enjoyed hearing the bell ring, also she had a small mirror fastened to one side of the cage, often one of her birds would sit and look at it's self in the mirror. Canaries like to sleep when the sun goes down, and wake when it comes up, so if possible, cover your birds cage at night

Flexibility of your beliefs, alignments, and interest are the only ways to be truly authentic. No one at any given moment should be ascribed a definition. The human spirt is simply too intertwined with others and with the world to limit itself. Reasonably so, language the medium that facilitates these interpersonal connections is also dynamic. Language, as well as people, can freely change depending on the present situation. The ever flowing ways of language allows the user’s identity to effortlessly