Talk:Creaky voice

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Can we have some examples? lysdexia 14:08, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] also called glottal fry

This is also called 'glottal fry'

By whom? I've never heard it called "vocal fry" or "glottal fry" in my life. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 21:38, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Likewise, I've never heard the term and I live in the US where it's ostensibly used.

I don't know if the terms were ever widely used by linguists, but they are used in music (voice training). They tend to be found in the same sources as the term falsetto, which is also uncommon in linguistics. For example, see the site How to Sing Three Notes at the Same Time. kwami 16:48, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Khmer in "see also"

I can't find a reason to include the link to Khmer in the See Also section. First off, it's a disambig page, but I read through the whole article at Khmer language and couldn't find a reference to this phonation. Please respond with reasons for its inclusion, or I will remove the link next Wednesday. BonsaiViking 20:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC) disambiguation link repair (You can help!)

[edit] "Soft-pedal"

"Creaky voice manifests itself in the idiolects of some American English speakers, particularly at the beginnings of sentences that the speaker wishes to "soft-pedal"." Please explain what is meant by "soft-pedal". 198.150.76.150 16:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the original author's intent, but I'm wondering if this refers to the sound made by the boss in 'Office Space' when he's trying to get the lead to do something: "Yeaaaaaaaaaah, it's about those T.P.S. reports". Soft-pedal might mean that the speaker wishes to seem polite when they are actually asking something rather difficult. --njh 07:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)