autophonicadj.
/ˌɔːtəˈfɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌɔdəˈfɑnɪk/, /ˌɔdoʊˈfɑnɪk/, /ˌɑdəˈfɑnɪk/, /ˌɑdoʊˈfɑnɪk/ 1. Medicine and Psychology. Originally: of or relating to autophony (now rare). In later use also: of or relating to the perception of the loudness or other quality of one's own voice.
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1840 Med. Times 21 Nov. 93/2 Autophonic [voice].—In cases where the voice of the patient is either extinct, or too feeble to reverberate from the chest, the practitioner may have recourse to autophony, or the use of his own voice against the chest of the patient.
1862 H. W. Fuller On Dis. Chest 124 The inference that autophonic resonance would vary with the density of the contents of the thoracic cavity.
1892 Ann. Ophthalmol. & Otol. 1 102 Where there is very great relaxation of the transmitting mechanism, giving rise to severe autophonic noises, vertigo, etc.
1918 H. W. Loeb Mil. Surg. Ear, Nose & Throat v. 65 Castex utilizes his institution for..autophonic exercises to overcome the change in speech accompanying severe deafness.
1962 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 75 152 It would appear that autophonic judgments are primarily auditory rather than muscular in nature.
1979 Jrnl. Communication Disorders 12 207 The equal loudness contours for nonspeech stimuli of this kind may not have such relevance to the prediction of autophonic loudness judgments.
2000 S. Möller Assessment & Prediction Speech Quality in Telecomm. i. 33 The exponent of the so-called autophonic loudness scale (the speaker's estimate of his/her own vocal level) is around the twice the corresponding exponent of the sone loudness scale (the normal loudess impression for ambient noise).
2. Music. Of an instrument: that is an autophone (autophone n. 3); self-sounding. Now rare.
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1894 Musical Times Feb. 117/1 The first class, in which the sound is due to the natural elasticity of the bodies themselves, he [sc. Mahillon] calls autophonic instruments (Instruments autophones).
1895 T. Baker Dict. Musical Terms 101 Instruments of percussion... Autophonic... Triangle, cymbals, castanets, etc.
1914 C. Forsyth Orchestration 22 This subdivision of the ‘Percussion’ into ‘Autophonic’ and ‘Membrane’ Instruments depends for its logic solely on the degree of elasticity in the struck surface.
1937 F. W. Galpin Textbk. European Mus. Instruments 29 Autophonic Instruments or self-vibrators, i.e. instruments of solid substance which, owing to their elastic nature, have a sonority of their own, which is emitted in waves when they are struck, plucked, or stimulated by friction or air.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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