Journal article
Further studies of phonation threshold pressure in a physical model of the vocal fold mucosa
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.101(6), pp.3722-3727
06/01/1997
DOI: 10.1121/1.418331
PMID: 9193059
Abstract
This paper reports results of further experimentation on a previously developed physical model of the vocal-fold mucosa [Titze et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3080–3084 (1995)]. The effects of vocal-fold thickness, epithelial membrane thickness, and prephonatory glottal geometry on phonation threshold pressure were studied. Phonation threshold pressures in the range of 0.13 to 0.34 kPa were observed for an 11-mm-thick vocal fold with a 70-μm-thick “epithelial” membrane for different “mucosal” fluid viscosities. Higher threshold pressure was always obtained for thinner vocal folds and thicker membranes. In another set of experiments, lowest offset threshold pressure was obtained for a rectangular or a near-rectangular prephonatory glottis (with a glottal convergence angle within about ±3°). It ranged from 0.07 to 0.23 kPa for different glottal half-widths between 2.0 and 6.0 mm. The threshold for more convergent or divergent glottal geometries was consistently higher. This finding only partially agrees with previous analytical work which predicts a lowest threshold for a divergent glottis. The discrepancy between theory and data is likely to be associated with flow separation from a divergent glottis.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Further studies of phonation threshold pressure in a physical model of the vocal fold mucosa
- Creators
- Roger W. Chan - University of IowaIngo R. Titze - University of IowaMichael R. Titze - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.101(6), pp.3722-3727
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.418331
- PMID
- 9193059
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- eISSN
- 1520-8524
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/1997
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984719748902771
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