{"id":38438,"date":"2023-03-04T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38438"},"modified":"2023-03-04T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:38:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/03\/04\/word-of-the-day-870\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vocal fry<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0vocal fry register<\/b>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0pulse register<\/b>,\u00a0laryngealization<\/b>,\u00a0pulse phonation<\/b>,\u00a0creaky voice<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0creak<\/b>,\u00a0croak<\/b>,\u00a0popcorning<\/b>,\u00a0glottal fry<\/b>,\u00a0glottal rattle<\/b>,\u00a0glottal scrape<\/b>) is the lowest\u00a0vocal register<\/a>\u00a0and is produced through a loose\u00a0glottal closure<\/a>\u00a0that permits air to bubble through slowly with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency.\u00a0During this\u00a0phonation<\/a>, the\u00a0arytenoid cartilages<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0larynx<\/a>\u00a0are drawn together, which causes the\u00a0vocal folds<\/a>\u00a0to compress rather tightly and become relatively slack and compact. This process forms a large and irregularly vibrating mass within the vocal folds that produces the characteristic low popping or rattling sound when air passes through the glottal closure. The register (if well controlled) can extend far below the\u00a0modal voice register<\/a>, in some cases up to 8 octaves lower, such as in the case of\u00a0Tim Storms<\/a>\u00a0who holds the world record for lowest frequency note ever produced by a human, a G\u22127<\/sub>, which is only 0.189\u00a0Hz, inaudible to the human ear. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmmm. A cheap shortcut to social prestige, eh? Noted in “Young women are criticized for this vocal tic \u2014 but it helps whales survive<\/em><\/a>,” Dino Grandoni, WaPo:<\/p>\n

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Kim Kardashian does it. So does Scarlett Johansson and Katy Perry.<\/p>\n

And it turns out many whales also use \u201cvocal fry,\u201d the deep, gravelly vocal register these celebrities and a growing number of young American women have taken up.<\/p>\n

Except the group of animals, which includes sperm whales, orcas, dolphins and porpoises, use \u201cvocal fry\u201d to help find their prey, according to the paper published Thursday. The study<\/a>\u00a0in the journal Science\u00a0<\/b>found the whales, like people, have at least three vocal registers: A normal voice, a falsetto and that creaky fry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vocal fry: The\u00a0vocal fry register\u00a0(also known as\u00a0pulse register,\u00a0laryngealization,\u00a0pulse phonation,\u00a0creaky voice,\u00a0creak,\u00a0croak,\u00a0popcorning,\u00a0glottal fry,\u00a0glottal rattle,\u00a0glottal scrape) is the lowest\u00a0vocal register\u00a0and is produced through a loose\u00a0glottal closure\u00a0that permits air to bubble through slowly with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency.\u00a0During this\u00a0phonation, the\u00a0arytenoid cartilages\u00a0in the\u00a0larynx\u00a0are drawn together, which causes the\u00a0vocal folds\u00a0to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38439,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38438\/revisions\/38439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}