Laryngeal Features
Laryngeal features: The features that specify the glottal states of sounds.
- This feature indicates whether vibration of the vocal folds occurs with the articulation of the segment.
- Used to indicate the aspiration of a segment, this feature denotes the openness of the glottis. For the vocal folds are spread apart wide enough for frication to occur; for there is not the same friction-inducing spreading.
- The constricted glottis features denotes the degree of closure of the glottis. implies that the vocal folds are held closely together, enough so that air cannot pass through momentarily. implies the opposite.
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