Re: Ventricular phonation

On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 12:26 , william drewery wrote:

> Is ventricular phonation the same as creaky-voice? If not, just what is
> it? and is it possible to produce a distinct fricative using the
> ventricular folds?
Apparently not. "Creaky-voice" is produced by a very slow vibration of
only one end of the _vocal cords_; such sounds are also called
'laryngealized'.

Ventricular phonation is produced, as you say, between the ventricular
bands, otherwise known as "false vocal folds", which lie above and are
parallel with the true vocal cords. They are, apparently, not normally
used in speech but, according to David Crystal, ventricular effects are
sometimes combined with glottal voice to produce 'double' or 'diplophonic
voice'.

As to whether you can produce a distinct fricative using the ventricular
bands, I do not know.
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On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 12:34 , Steven Williams wrote:

[snip]
> Ventricular folds? I'm imagining a language whose
> speakers are constantly spurting blood everywhere,
Not those ventricles!    :)

Ray.
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