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phonation Physiol.|fəʊˈneɪʃən|
[f. Gr. ϕωνή voice + -ation: in mod.L. phonātio, F. phonation (Littré).]
The production or utterance of vocal sound: usually, as distinguished from articulation, or the division of the tone so produced into the elements of speech by the other vocal organs. Also spec. the process or act of producing voice (voice n. 1 g); sometimes gen. vocal utterance, voice-production.
1842Dunglison Med. Lex., Phonation, the physiology of the voice. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 285 Movements concerned in phonation. 1879Lewes Study Psychol. 29 Aphasia may be due to a defect of Phonation. 1892R. L. Garner Speech Monkeys iv. 41 The phonation of a species is generally uniform. 1931Musical Times Jan. 18/2 The simplest act of speech involves the co-ordination of three very complicated sets of muscles: those of inspiration and expiration; those of phonation (the intra- and extra-laryngeal muscles); and those of articulation. 1935Jrnl. Mental Sci. LXXXI. 837 The muscles of respiration, phonation, and articulation. 1956J. Whatmough Language ix. 157 It [sc. language] is now articulated (i.e. jointed) phonation, though originally simple and reflex. 1959E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. of Speech iv. 43 Many experiments have been performed..to measure subglottic pressure during phonation. Ibid. xviii. 140 Fig. 30 illustrates four phonations of the vowel [i]. 1962A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. ii. 9 The action of the vocal cords which is most characteristically a function of speech consists in their role as a vibrator set in motion by lung air—the production of voice, or phonation. 1964J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 28 Various components of speech-sound pronunciation, including phonation-types. 1970Language LXVI. 313 The human larynx is so constructed that the fundamental frequency of phonation is a function of both the transglottal air pressure drop and the tensions of the laryngeal muscles. 1976Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXI. i. 118 A most informative explanation of air-stream mechanisms and phonation times, including voice-onset-time.
Hence phoˈnational a. = phonatory a.
1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. i. 5 Persons whose phonational and auditory apparatus are normal. Ibid. ii. 18 This condition..is the auditory counterpart of the pathological forms of the phonational soliloquy. 1947Word III. 2 The phonational act..gives rise, in the hearer, to an acoustic image which is distinct from the physical sound. |