In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies the vocal range below the common vocal register. It is a special kind of phonation[1][2] in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact. They normally vibrate irregularly at 20–50 pulses per second, about two octaves below the frequency of modal voicing, and the airflow through the glottis is very slow. Although creaky voice may occur with very low pitch, as at the end of a long intonation unit, it can also occur with a higher pitch.[3] All contribute to make a speaker's voice sound creaky or raspy.
Short demonstration of vocal fry/creaky voice
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In linguistics, creakyvoice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies...
sometimes realized as creakyvoice. It has been observed that "in place of a true stop, a very compressed form of creakyvoice or some less extreme form...
"whispery voice" with e.g. {Vʱ} for VoQS "breathy voice". {Ṿ} whispery voice (murmur; the breathy voice of the IPA) {V̰} creakyvoice {V̤} breathy voice {C̣}...
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Glottalization of vowels and other sonorants is most often realized as creakyvoice (partial closure). Glottalization of obstruent consonants usually involves...
There is no symbol for harsh voice in the IPA. Diacritics seen in the literature include the under-tilde used for creakyvoice, which may be appropriate...
tense. Other such phonation types include breathy voice, or murmur; slack voice; and creakyvoice. The following plosives have been given dedicated symbols...
example, stiff-voiced vowels have tenseness in the glottis and pharynx without going so far as to be creakyvoiced, whereas slack-voiced vowels are lax...
vocal folds closer together results in creakyvoice. The normal phonation pattern used in typical speech is modal voice, where the vocal folds are held close...
may contrast with aspirated, voiced and tenuis consonants. Some languages have glottalized sonorants with creakyvoice that pattern with ejectives phonologically...
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implosive stops; rather, it has lax glottalized stops that display a creakyvoice quality at the margin of the vowel in pretonic (and syllable-final) environments...
[ꬸ] (pharyngealized l). The transcription of strident and harsh voice as extra-creaky /a᷽/ may be motivated by the similarities of these phonations. The...
contrast, either between modal (normal) voice and breathy (lax) voice or between modal voice and creakyvoice. Languages in the Pearic branch and some...
between voiceless consonants are often devoiced. Modal voice, creakyvoice, and breathy voice (murmured vowels) are phonation types that are used contrastively...
accent (ìi èe àa òo ùu). Also, Yucatec has contrastive laryngealization (creakyvoice) on long vowels, sometimes realized by means of a full intervocalic glottal...
by a modally voiced sonorant, [ʔm], [ʔj], etc.; an initially creakyvoiced sonorant switching to modal voice by the end; a fully creaky consonant; or...
Jianjing (2017-09-01). "Covariation between voice quality and pitch: Revisiting the case of Mandarin creakyvoice". The Journal of the Acoustical Society...
properly with a superscript glottal stop or with an under-tilde for creakyvoice. For example, the Yapese word for sick with a glottalized m could be...
present in standard Canadian English, two features in particular being “creakyvoice” and “lateralization of sibilants”. While more research is necessary...
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