laryngealadj.n.

1795 J. Haighton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 198 The eighth pair of nerves communicates energy to the larynx by means of the laryngeal branch.

1854 J. S. Bushnan in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) I. 282/1 The superior laryngeal nerve.

1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 179 Constituting what..is frequently spoken of as laringeal phthisis.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xviii. 276 The male gorilla..when adult is furnished with a laryngeal sack.

1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 235 The patient may be directed to practise on himself..with the laryngeal mirror.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 229 There are no less than eight pairs of laryngeal muscles.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 791 The chief remedy is the application of astringents to the cords by means of the laryngeal brush.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. 249 Articulations, laryngeal.

1927 R. Bridges in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXVI. 177 The method is that in singing the mouth is fixed in the position that gives the required vowel resonance..and that the laringeal note is as it were forced through it.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 28 Laryngeals or glottals, produced by a narrowing or closure of the vocal cords.

1952 Bull. Board Celtic Stud. 14 296 I reconstruct in terms of the so-called ‘laryngeal theory’, here, however, without committing myself to the number of laryngeals necessarily to be assumed at a given time.

1958 A. S. C. Ross Etymol. 7 It is certainly quite impossible for anyone to understand Laryngeal Theory without being thoroughly familiar with junggrammatisch Ablaut.

1958 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. (ed. 4) 6 It [sc. Hittite] has ‘laryngeal’ sounds—not identical with the Semitic ‘laryngals’.

1942 E. H. Sturtevant Indo-Hittite Laryngeals 15 In this book the word laryngeals designates certain consonants of Proto-Indo-Hittite. The name is historically a translation of German Laryngale, which term was borrowed from Semitic grammar by Hermann Möller to designate five phonemes of his Proto-Indo-European-Semitic.

1951 Trans. Philol. Soc. 88 (title) A reconsideration of the Hittite evidence for the existence of ‘Laryngeals’ in Primitive Indo-European.

1963 Language 39 252 It is intrinsically implausible that a presumably nonsyllabic laryngeal next to a syllabic resonant should vocalize.

1969 Language 45 260 Plain stops immediately followed by a laryngeal became aspirated stops in Indo-Iranian.

1971 F. R. Adrados in Archivum Linguisticum II. 95 I refer particularly to those stems in which the presence of laryngeals gives rise to diverging interpretations.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Laryngean. [Hence in mod. Dicts.]

1964 Language 40 138 The laryngealist will retort that another..problem..is also solved by applying a laryngeal solution.

1964 Language 40 140 A typical phonemic analysis of the PIE vowels in laryngealist terms.

1971 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 17 70 He rejects phonemic /ə/..thus discomfiting the more elderly laryngealists.

1943 K. L. Pike Phonetics vii. 127 Laryngealization may conveniently be said to be trillization with superimposed voice.

1964 O'Connor & Tooley in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 176 Glottal stop and laryngealization before word-initial vowel were accepted.

1943 K. L. Pike Phonetics vii. 127 In English one often hears laryngealized vowels.

1968 Language 44 529 Much is made of the fact that only one laryngealized stop (i.e. glottalized or aspirated) occurs per word in Quechua.

1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 315 Several African and Caucasian languages exhibit the so-called laryngealized or ‘creaky’ voice.