English passive voice

The laryngeal muscles of the phonatory system are comprised of a group of both intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. Out of these two muscle groups, the placement of the extrinsic muscles are what confuse me the most. The extrinsic laryngeal muscles are further divided into suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles. The suprahyoid muscles attach superiorly to the hyoid bone and elevate the larynx and hyoid bone, while the infrahyoid muscles attach inferiorly to the hyoid bone and depress the larynx and the…

A joint subcommittee was formed in December 1994 and they addressed issues about second language speakers that are audiologists, SLPs and students that have a linguistic competence of English and have an accent or a dialect. Would this have any type of affect when doing procedures? Is there any research that shows that audiologists or SLPs with a “different” dialect or accent would affect those who need their treatment? “There is no research to support the belief that audiologists and…

(2016), did conclude that MCT does increase roughness in vocal quality due to muscle rebalance in the laryngeal area after MCT; however, participants did demonstrate a softer voice which is a goal of MCT. Another benefit from this treatment approach is that it is one of the most direct treatment approach to improve individuals’ voices, which increases client motivation (Van Houtee et al., 2009). MCT has been demonstrated to decrease laryngeal pain in individuals with MTD (Reimann et al., 2016;…

In the yellow box, you can see that Mr. Hanson can produce nasalizations very well. In this image, he is making the /m/ sounds of “my motorcycle.” The nasal formants in the yellow boxes show the correct way to form a nasalization with low are dark first formant and a light space with little to no formant two. In these screenshots, you can see that Mr. Hanson’s speech is pretty much constantly a nasalization. In the boxes above, the blue box is his normal speech, and the green box is the when…

A Critical Review of Mace and Lalli’s Linking Descriptive and Experimental Analyses in the Treatment of Bizarre Speech Mace and Lalli were interested in identifying the environmental contingencies maintaining a 46-year-old man, Mitch, with a moderate intellectual disability’s “bizarre speech” and vocalizations. (p. 553, 1991) The article states that operational definitions are available from the authors upon request, but it does provide a brief overview of what constitutes bizarre/unusual…

Is auto tune making real singers obsolete? The invention is making everyone into singers. Autotune is a audio processor that measures and alters vocal pitches and along with intents to make them sound better essentially. It is literally found everywhere in all types of music. Real singers are a commodity in today's industry due to the overuse of autotune. In the history of singing western society solo vocal performances has continued to rise from unlikely causes such as auto tune. Similar to…

In "For More than One Voice", the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero underlines the singular and embodied materiality of voice, while emphasizing the fact that voice is primarily relational and always creates a mutual resonance among unique human beings. Moreover, Cavarero interprets vocal exchange as the paradigm of a politics that is based on “the reciprocal communication of voices” and that find an ideal dimension in “a kind of song 'for more than one voice' whose melodic principle…

A year later at the end of Love is Never Silent, Janice had a retirement party at the factory where she worked since she was seventeen (Love is never silent). She invited all the staffs, friends and family members to come (Love is never silent). With a pastor’s translation, her stand in the middle among the people and had a speech using American Sign Language. The speech was a conclusion of her work journey in the factory. She informed everyone in the party that “The word silent, for us, is…

The last thing we all want to do when we are reading a book is flipping the pages back and forth to understand the page you we are reading. Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman, was one of the most interesting and most complicated books I have ever read. Being used to American writing style, it was pretty hard to stay on track with Black Water since it’s a Swedish novel. Being a detective is the last thing I would of have thought of myself. The readers of The Blackwater have become an unlicensed…

Summary In theory, the researchers main goal in this study was to establish if there was a correlation in the intonation of someone’s voice and the desire to influence another individual to buy a product or answer a set of questions. How willing are we to just listen to someone based on the pitch or tone of their voice? Our brains don’t have any visual cues to know if we can trust this person or not, so that’s why when companies are trying to sell you something, they should be very particular on…