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Glottis

The space between the vocal cords Vocal folds

The vocal folds, also known popularly as vocal cords, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane [i] ... 

 is called the glottis. As the vocal cords vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing. Sounds production involving only the glottis is called glottal. English has a voiceless glottal fricative spelled "h". In many accents of English the glottal stop  is used as a variant allophone of the phoneme ; in some languages, this sound is a phoneme of its own. Skilled players of the Australian didgeridoo Didgeridoo

he didgeridoo is a unique wind instrument [i] of the Indigenous Australians [i] of n ... 

 restrict their glottal opening in order to produce the full range of timbres available on the instrument.

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The space between the vocal cords Vocal folds

The vocal folds, also known popularly as vocal cords, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane [i] ... 

 is called the glottis. As the vocal cords vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing.

Sounds production involving only the glottis is called glottal. English has a voiceless glottal fricative spelled "h". In many accents of English the glottal stop  is used as a variant allophone of the phoneme ; in some languages, this sound is a phoneme of its own.


Skilled players of the Australian didgeridoo Didgeridoo

he didgeridoo is a unique wind instrument [i] of the Indigenous Australians [i] of n ... 

 restrict their glottal opening in order to produce the full range of timbres available on the instrument.
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The vibration produced is an essential component of voiced consonants as well as vowels Vowel

In phonetics [i], a vowel is a sound [i] in spoken language [i] that is characterized by an open configu ... 

. If the vocal folds are drawn apart, air flows between them causing no vibration, as in the production of voiceless consonants.

  • Voiced consonants include
  • Voiceless consonants include

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Phonation Phonation

In phonetics [i], phonation is the "use of the laryngeal system [i] to generate an audible source ...