The physics of small-amplitude oscillation of the vocal folds.

@article{Titze1988ThePO,
  title={The physics of small-amplitude oscillation of the vocal folds.},
  author={Ingo R. Titze},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={1988},
  volume={83 4},
  pages={
          1536-52
        }
}
  • I. Titze
  • Published 1988
  • Physics, Medicine
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
A theory of vocal fold oscillation is developed on the basis of the body-cover hypothesis. The cover is represented by a distributed surface layer that can propagate a mucosal surface wave. Linearization of the surface-wave displacement and velocity, and further small-amplitude approximations, yields closed-form expressions for conditions of oscillation. The theory predicts that the lung pressure required to sustain oscillation, i.e., the oscillation threshold pressure, is reduced by reducing… Expand
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