OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 58768

vocal fry

Meanings (ES + gloss)
laringalización • voz laringalizada
A low creaky vocal vibration caused by rapid vibration of the vocal chords, common in some languages such as Finnish. In English, often associated with older Received Pronunciation and more recent North American speech patterns.
It is perhaps easiest to see the superimposition of vocal fry, so we will begin with this behavior.
Some individuals have overlooked the fact that at such low pitch their voices fade to inaudibility at the ends of sentences, or scrape down to vocal fry.
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