In a bout of blatent self-promotion, teachlingers might find my chapter on
media coverage of vocal fry useful. Due to appear in Lawson and Sayers
(2016), Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact, published by
Routledge.
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>Subject: Re: Creaky voice and "vocal fry"
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:42:15 -0500
>From: Angus Grieve-Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Angus Grieve-Smith <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sorry, I meant to post a link to the article:
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>http://theconversation.com/keep-an-eye-on-vocal-fry-its-all-about-power-st
>atus-and-gender-45883
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>On 11/9/2015 2:22 PM, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote:
>> In my intro phonology course I'm doing a module on phonation
>> creaky voice, aka "vocal fry." My students this semester are all
>> speech pathology majors, and many of them have heard the claims that
>> it can damage the voice. In online discussions I asked them to talk
>> about how they envision it affecting their practice in the future, and
>> they said things like this:
>>
>> "I see such an issue related to my future role as a speech
>> pathologist, in that the extensive use of creaky voice present in this
>> current generation may cause speech difficulties down the road because
>> of such extended use. I may have to treat a lot of these patients in
>> the future since creaky voice otherwise known as vocal fry, will/may
>> have a negative impact on the future speech of such individuals."
>>
>> I've heard these claims of damage, and Sylvia Sierra pointed me to
>> an article by a speech pathologist that lays them out:
>>
>> "This increase in force during vibration of the vocal folds can be
>> traumatic and cause injury to the vocal folds if it occurs a lot
>> injuries such as laryngitis, vocal fold swelling, and vocal nodules,
>> to name just a few."
>>
>> This article doesn't give any evidence of this injury, and I don't
>> know if there is any. I'm very skeptical, and I've heard similar
>> skepticism from linguists. Does anyone have a good article debunking
>> this claim?
>>
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