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The activity of the cricothyroid muscle and the intrinsic fundamental frequency in Danish vowels.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  2130379     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The relationship between the electromyographic (EMG) activity from the pars obliqua of the cricothyroid (CT) muscle (recorded with bipolar hook-wire electrodes) and the intrinsic fundamental frequency (IF0) in high and low vowels in Danish was investigated. The test material, which consisted of 306 randomized natural words of the type C'V(:)le, imbedded in carrier sentences, was recorded by 4 native speakers of Danish. The following vowel pairs were compared: ['i-'a,'i:-'ae:, 'u:-'ae:] and ['i:-'a]. The results, which are based on visual inspection of average EMG and fundamental frequency (F0) curves, show a positive correlation between the CT activity and IF0, more specifically that the CT activity rise related to the high vowels starts earlier and in most cases more steeply than the CT activity related to the low vowels. However, a drop in F0 at the beginning of the low vowels cannot be accounted for by CT activity. This F0 drop is believed to be the result of either tongue retraction during the articulation or influence from the preceding consonant. The following conclusion is drawn: The CT muscle is a major factor in controlling IF0 in stressed high and low vowels in Danish.
Authors:
N Dyhr
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Phonetica     Volume:  47     ISSN:  0031-8388     ISO Abbreviation:  Phonetica     Publication Date:  1990  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1991-11-21     Completed Date:  1991-11-21     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0376424     Medline TA:  Phonetica     Country:  SWITZERLAND    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  141-54     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Electromyography / instrumentation
Female
Humans
Language*
Laryngeal Muscles / physiology*
Male
Pharyngeal Muscles / physiology*
Phonetics*
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation
Sound Spectrography* / instrumentation
Speech / physiology*
Tongue / physiology*

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