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Re: Vibrant/Tremulant

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, July 16, 2007, 8:06
Quoting Mark Jones <markjjones@...>:

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> To transcribe this more open trill sound, you could use the IPA symbol for > the apical trill, i.s. [r], with the subscript 'more open' diacritic (looks > like a small capital T).
Thanks!
> One final thing: research suggests that apical trills are made in the same > way as the vibration of the vocal folds - not individual neuromuscular > commands for each contact, but an essentially aerodynamically driven > vibration
To be perfectly honest, I was under the impression that trills were aerodynamically driven by definition. Intuitively I'd say achieving them any other way is impossible. Andreas