| From: Steven Fosdick To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: TECH: Body size/Height & Vocal Range Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:30:30AM -0800, Tako Oda wrote:
> Certain languages promote different uses of the voice for everyday > speech. So language might be a factor... but then maybe the chicken > comes before the egg. Maybe a population speaks a certain way > because of how their voice boxes are designed.
One would certainly expect that the sounds used in a language are those that the native speakers of that language find it easy to make, but I suspect we would find the differences in anatomy between races that determine the sounds used in language are differences of vocal tract shape rather than laryngeal size.
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