phonationn.
/fəˈneɪʃn/, /fəʊˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /foʊˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ The production or utterance of vocal sounds, spec. by means of laryngeal structures (esp. the vocal folds); voice production; an instance or type of this.
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soundinga1387
utterancec1456
prelationa1525
elocution1623
vocification?1632
articulation1677
voicing1822
vocalization1828
voicing1831
phonation1842
phonesis1856
1842 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 13 226 The superior and inferior laryngeal nerves have an influence upon phonation.
1848 Lancet 3 June 600/2 A gradual difficulty of phonation, which may go so far as to produce a total extinction of voice.
1892 R. L. Garner Speech Monkeys iv. 41 The phonation of a species is generally uniform.
1931 Musical Times Jan. 18/2 The simplest act of speech involves the co-ordination of three very complicated sets of muscles: those of inspiration and expiration; those of phonation (the intra- and extra-laryngeal muscles); and those of articulation.
1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech iv. 43 Many experiments have been performed..to measure subglottic pressure during phonation.
1990 Language 66 313 The human larynx is so constructed that the fundamental frequency of phonation is a function of both the transglottal air pressure drop and the tensions of the laryngeal muscles.
2000 D. Mason in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing xvii. 218 During the phonation the inspiratory muscles help control the pressure of breath.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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