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Preferred term

Voice Quality  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Scope note

  • That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under VOICE 1979-90

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014833

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