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Tag: Voice Phenomenology

A collection of encyclopedia entries relating to voice phenomenology.

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Postoperative Voice Use

Voice Use Following Vocal Fold Micro-Surgery in Singers During the first 4 days following surgery—NO TALKING. During this time communicate instead using a dry erase board, pencil and paper or sign language. You may attempt to do gentle “gliding sounds”

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Positive and Negative Practice

Positive/negative practice is a behavioral treatment prescribed primarily for patients with nonorganic voice disorders. A patient with a nonorganic voice disorder has been diagnosed with aberrant voice production due to the abnormal use of a normal mechanism, often due to

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Mucosal Chatter

Mucosal chatter is an audible phenomenon of injured vocal cord vibration. It is commonly heard in the softly-sung upper voice of persons with nodules, polyps, etc. Hoarseness or roughness are broad and nonspecific descriptors useful only for severe injuries. Small

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Segmental Vibration

In the normal larynx, segmental vibration occurs when both chest and falsetto (head) registers are produced by vibration of the anterior 2/3 of the vocal cords. The posterior 1/3 is “inhabited” by the arytenoid cartilage and does not vibrate. In

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Popping Onset

A popping onset refers to the sudden start of the voice after a little hiss of air, but once the voice begins, it is very clear. It doesn’t sound like laryngitis, or scratchy like one would hear after a nodule

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Vocal Instability

Vocal Instability is a characteristic that might manifest most clearly during sustained phonation as a glitch, catch, wavering, tremor, in-and-out vocal fry, or other such finding. In each case, the patient would be unable, partially able, or only intermittently able to

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Dystonic tremor of the voice or larynx

A tremor that sometimes accompanies laryngeal dystonia and its effects on voice function (spasmodic dysphonia), breathing function (respiratory dystonia), or both. This dystonic tremor is heard as a “wavering” in the voice (if the person has spasmodic dysphonia) or in

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Vocal Tremor

Vocal tremor: A regular, wavering quality of voice, analogous to a singer’s vibrato but occurring, to an individual’s distress, during speaking, not just during singing. May occur as a sole abnormality in essential voice tremor, or in combination with spasmodic

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Vocal fry

The name given to a quality of sound produced at low pitch (generally below 70 Hz, or around E2 or F2 in musical notation). Vocal fry is produced in what some call pulse register, as compared with chest and falsetto

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