In a message dated 6/30/00 10:26:53 PM Central Daylight Time, bandb@n... writes:
<< Now in my mind, the opposite of imagery, or, NOT resorting to the imagination, is objectivity, and so I assume you have the detail in mind of the process you uphold, so why do you keep us in the dark? >
Boy Reg, I'm not keeping you in the dark, and I am a very lucid writer (according to most). I really don't know what else you want, but here it goes.
The muscles of adduction keep the back portion of the folds closed, therefore less air will be used to move the portion that is left to vibrate. The prephonatory tuning of the folds is what influences the amount of air used, not vice versa. Equating this to cheerleading etc, is not a valid point, the sound I've heard from damped production is not one would equate with cheerleading and does not produce the qualities one would associate with pressed phonation where the mucosal cover becomes very stiff to produce higher pitches. And as I stated in my previous post, I did not say that dampening was the only way of producing higher pitches, just the one SLS prefers.
I hope that does it.
Randy Buescher
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