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Simulation of Multiple Source Vocalization in the Larynx: How True Folds, False Folds, and Aryepiglottic Folds May Interact
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Simulation of Multiple Source Vocalization in the Larynx: How True Folds, False Folds, and Aryepiglottic Folds May Interact

Ingo R. Titze
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, Vol.67(3), pp.802-810
03/11/2024
DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00503
PMCID: PMC11001424
PMID: 38416067
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11001424/pdf/JSLHR-67-802.pdfView
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was a modest beginning to determine dominance and entrainment between three soft tissues in the larynx that can be set into flowinduced oscillation and act as sound sources. The hypothesis was that they interact as coupled oscillators with observable bifurcations as energy is exchanged between them. Methodology: The true vocal folds, the ventricular (false) folds, and the aryepiglottic folds were part of a soft-walled airway that produced airflow for sound production. The methodology was computational, based on a simplified Navier- Stokes solution of convective and compressible airflow in a variable-geometry airway. Results: Three serially connected sources could all produce flow-induced selfoscillation with soft wall tissue and small cross-sectional area. When the glottal cross-sectional areas were similar, bifurcations such as subharmonics, delayed voice onset, and aphonia occurred in the coupled oscillations. Conclusions: Closely spaced sound sources in the larynx are highly interactive. They appear to entrain to the source that has the combined advantage of small cross-sectional glottal area and proximity to a downstream vocal tract that supports oscillation with acoustic inertance.
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