Re: Pitch and tense

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Kristian Jensen wrote:

> I was going to suggest creaky voice as well, but I see that Boudewijn
> beat me to it. Anyways, as Boudewijn has hinted, if you want
> something besides tone and pitch, then phonation is a good
> alternative. Other phonations, aside from creaky and modal (normal
> voicing) voice, includes breathy voice. You can even combine
> phonation with tone if you want. That is, you can have: high creaky
> tone, low creaky tone, high modal tone, low modal tone, high breathy
> tone, low breathy tone, etc. etc.
>
Another interesting kind of system is where you have a few
'clear' tones and a 'creaky tone', which functions like a
tone but really is a phonation type.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt