Intralaryngeal pressure conditions and a membranophonic interpretation of voice production.

Abstract

The article gives one of the possible explanations of the complex event which may be registered when recording the vibrations from the thyroid cartilage in ventral-dorsal direction during phonation and approximately in two octaves of the modal voice. The alternating displacement of the vibrating thyroid cartilage is caused apparently by the alternating increase and decrease in the resulting pressure force acting upon the vocal folds. For the time being the adduced hypothesis does not take into consideration specific reflex activity, in spite of the fact that it can probably be expected with lesions of the nervous system on the basis of the typically changed manifestations.