Five Week's Phonation Case Study

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In this week’s phonation laboratory activity, each student was able to express their individual voice qualities. While modal voicing was relatively easy for all five subjects, some found themselves struggling to match the pulse and falsetto pitch. However, all participants in the individual study were females, did not smoke, and none of them had a voice disorder. Any of those factors could have significantly affected the results. Eventually, each subject was able to match the correct pitch and have their results recorded. The laboratory activity relates to current course material on laryngeal physiology concerning measurements of different vocal registers and the fundamental frequency changes with each register. For example, the falsetto register

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