Re: Pitch and tense

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Joe Mondello wrote:
>
>>
>> I think now that I have wandered into what was for me unknown =
territory (the
>> only other time I'd used tone/pitch was in Nedm, which had a "snide" =
tone
>> that made anything said lewd ond offensive) I have a feeling that =
this trend
>> will probably extend itself.  any suggestions as to other such =
possible
>> variations in speech, other than tone and pitch, or interesting =
tones?
>>
>
>Creaky voice is always a good one! You produce it by pulling your vocal
>chords a bit tensely together, and then make your voice a bit wobbly.
>
I was going to suggest creaky voice as well, but I see that Boudewijn=20
beat me to it. Anyways, as Boudewijn has hinted, if you want=20
something besides tone and pitch, then phonation is a good=20
alternative. Other phonations, aside from creaky and modal (normal=20
voicing) voice, includes breathy voice. You can even combine=20
phonation with tone if you want. That is, you can have: high creaky=20
tone, low creaky tone, high modal tone, low modal tone, high breathy=20
tone, low breathy tone, etc. etc.

-kristian- 8)