Habitual Use of Vocal Fry in Young Adult Female Speakers

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• 作者：Lesley Wolk ; Nassima B. Abdelli-Beruh ; ^{nassima.abdelli-beruh@liu.edu} ; Dianne Slavin
• 关键词：Prevalence ; Vocal fry register ; Perceptual judgments ; Acoustic measures
• 刊名：Journal of Voice
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：1_08921997
• 类别：art
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：26
• 期：3
• 页码：e111-e116
• 文件大小：94 K

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| Figures/TablesFigures/Tables | ReferencesReferences<h3 class="h3">Summaryh3>The purpose of this study was to examine the use of vocal fry in young adult Standard American-English (SAE) speakers. This was a preliminary attempt (1) to determine the prevalence of the use of this register in young adult college-aged American speakers and (2) to describe the acoustic characteristics of vocal fry in these speakers. Subjects were 34 female college students. They were native SAE speakers aged 18-25 years. Data collection procedures included high quality recordings of two speaking conditions, (1) sustained isolated vowel /a/ and (2) sentence reading task. Data analyses included both perceptual and acoustic evaluations. Results showed that approximately two-thirds of this population used vocal fry and that it was most likely to occur at the end of sentences. In addition, statistically significant differences between vocal fry and normal register were found for mean F₀ minimum, F₀ maximum, F₀ range, and jitter local. Preliminary findings were taken to suggest that use of the vocal fry register may be common in some adult SAE speakers.