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Phonation Phonation andand
Laryngeal Laryngeal Anatomy and PhysiologyAnatomy and Physiology
Nothing is ever said on the stage without a reason. There are no exceptions.
Charles Waxberg
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The original use of the larynx was to keep us alive through breakfast. Its main function is stop solids and liquids from entering the trachea and choking us to death. Its secondary functions are to bear down, phonation and speech. The larynx of humans and great apes in infancy is higher in the neck so that they can breathe and suckle at the same time. In humans it descends before the age of two.
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What the Larynx is for• To stop food/liquid from entering the lungs• To Bear Down
– While Expelling• Defecation• Childbirth
– While Lifting • PHONATION
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What is phonation?What is phonation?• Laryngeal generation of
voice
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Composition of the Larynx
• Composed of cartilage:– Cricoid Cartilage – Greek Name meaning ‘ring
like’– Thyroid Cartilage – Greek Name meaning
‘Sheild like’– A pair of Arytenoids– Epiglottis
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Laryngeal Anatomyanatomy.uams.edu/anatomyhtml/atlas_html/rsa3p2.html
1. Hyoid bone
2. Thyroid cartilage
3. Cricoid cartilage
4. Tracheal cartilages
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Larynx
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Cricoid
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1. Anterior arch
2. Posterior lamina
3. Articular facet
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Thyroid Cartilage
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ARYTENOIDS
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1. Thyroid prominence 2. Cricothyroid ligament 3. Arytenoid cartilage 4. Corniculate cartilage 5. Vocal ligament 6. Vestibular fold 7. Cricoid cartilage 8. Articular facet for inferior cornu of thyroid cartilage
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1. Epiglottis
2. Arytenoid cartilage
3. Corniculate cartilage
4. Aryepiglottic fold
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The thyroid rests superiorly on the cricoid and attaches posterior-laterally at the cricoid’s inferior articulator facets. This attachment (the cricothyroid joint)
hinges the cricoid and thyroid allowing their anterior sides to adduct, changing
vocal fold length.
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Movement
The arytenoid cartilages, two pyramid shaped cartilages rest on the cricoid at the cricoarytenoid joints and move in two distinct ways:1.) To pivot (rocking) the posterior ends of the arytenoids away from each other, adducting the anterior ends or the reverse so the anterior ends abduct, and…2.) Sliding the arytenoids on an anterior-posterior path.Since the vocal folds are attached to the anterior ends of these cartilages (at the vocal process) any movement in them will change the folds’ shape, tension and relationship to each other thereby affecting phonation.
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Composition of the Larynx (Con’t)
• Composed of Muscle:– Extrinsic Laryngeal Muscles– Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscles
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Extrinsic MuscleExtrinsic MuscleTWO Groups of Extrinsic Muscles:
• SuprahyoidsSuprahyoids – Attach to points above the Hyoid (Jaw, Skull and Tongue) when they contract they raise or elevate the Larynx eg Swallowing
• InfrahyoidsInfrahyoids – Attach to points below the Hyoid (one connects to the thyroid, however the others connect to the sternum and the scapula) when they contract they lower or depress the Larynx
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Intrinsic MusclesIntrinsic Muscles
• AdductorsAdductors – vocal folds are together• AbductorsAbductors – vocal folds apart• Tensors - Tensors - Stiffen• Relaxors - Relaxors - Relax
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AdductorsAdductors• Lateral Cricoarytenoids• Interarytenoids
–Transverse Arytenoids–Oblique Arytenoids
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AbductorsAbductors• Posterior Cricoarytenoids
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Vocal FoldsVocal Folds• Muscle
–External Thyroarytenoids – inserts into inserts into the muscular process on the Arytenoids and the Thyroid notch (shorten the muscular process on the Arytenoids and the Thyroid notch (shorten and adduct)and adduct)
–Internal Thyroarytenoids – inserts into the inserts into the vocal process on the Arytenoids and the Thyroid Notch (shortens and vocal process on the Arytenoids and the Thyroid Notch (shortens and stiffens), act antagonistically to the Cricothyroidsstiffens), act antagonistically to the Cricothyroids
• Membrane
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MembranesMembranes
• False Vocal Folds – Ventricular folds• Laryngeal Ventricle• Conus Elasticus (interconnects the thyroid, cricoid and arytenoids
cartilages)• Lamina propria (mucosal cover of the vocalis
muscle) – can vibrate independently of the vocalis muscle
• Vocal Ligament – the thread like collagenous fibers of the deep layer of the lamina propria
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Relaxors and TensorsRelaxors and Tensors
• External Thyroarytenoid – Relaxor, Relaxor, shortens and adductsshortens and adducts
• Internal Thyroarytenoid – Tensor, shortens Tensor, shortens and stiffensand stiffens
• Cricothyroid Muscles – Tensor, lengthens Tensor, lengthens and stiffensand stiffens
Pitch is determined by Relaxors and TensorsPitch is determined by Relaxors and Tensors
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Fundamental Frequency
Phonation is made up of a fundamental frequency or Fo (the number of times the folds open and close per second-CPS) and harmonic multiples of the Fo (two times the Fo, three times, four times etc.) that fall in intensity (volume) in an inverse relationship as the harmonics rise in frequency or as the pitch rises the volume falls.
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Fundamental Frequency
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100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
INTENSITY
(VOLUME)
FREQUENCY
(PITCH)
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Pitch
• Fundamental frequency (average: baby 500Hz, children 250-
400Hz men 125Hz women 200Hz) is primarily affected by applying more or less longitudinal tension to the VF using:
• Cricothyroids• Tension in the vocalis muscle
OR• Adjustments in vertical tension – depressing or elevating
the Larynx via suprahyiod and infrahyoid muscles
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Vocal Fold Tension, Elasticity and Movement
• Thicker or thinner• Shorter or longer• Open or close• Intermediate positions• Stiff or elastic
Movement:Bronx Cheer or Raspberry– “the sound is that or air escaping in rapid bursts, not
the sound of the lips moving” – Borden and Harris. Aerodynamic forces acting on the elastic body of the lips
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ADMET – ADMET – Aero Dynamic Myo-Aero Dynamic Myo-Elastic TheoryElastic Theory
Glottal vibration is the result or refers to interaction between aero-dynamic forces and vocal fold muscular action.
• Sub-Glottal Pressure• Bernoulli Effect – set vocal folds into vibration due to the elasticity
of the folds (elastic recoil – the force which restores any elastic body back to its resting place)
• Muscular Force – Muscles act to bring the folds together so they can vibrate, and muscles regulate their thickness and tension to alter fundamental frequency. Folds are FULLY or PARTIALLY ADDUCTED for phonation
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Bernoulli Effect
• An increase in velocity results in a drop in the pressure exerted by the molecules of moving gas or liquid, the pressure drops being perpendicular the direction of the flow
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Schematic showing the Bernoulli Effect. The arrows indicate movement of pressure. As the air moves through a narrowing, inside pressure drops and outside pressure increases pulling the sides inward.
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Glottal CycleGlottal Cycle
• Vertical Phase Difference – vocal folds open at the bottom first. As top part opens bottom part closes. Wave like motion
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Chest (Modal Register)Chest (Modal Register)
• Low fundamental frequency• Vocalis muscle activity • Folds are thick and short• Low stiffness
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Falsetto RegisterFalsetto Register
• Longer and thinner folds• Stiff folds• Small amplitude of vibration• Incomplete closure of the folds• Shutter like appearance – Vibrate more like strings
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Vocal OnsetVocal Onset
• How we bring the folds together:– Attack– Breathy– Vocal Fry– Partial adduction – Whispering or falsetto
register(Note: Folds come together FULLYFULLY but without
force for Modal register)
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PitchPitch
• Lies in the stiffness of the folds resulting from lengthening and contraction of the thyroarytenoids, especially the vocalis portion