title: Frequency perturbation characteristics of pulse register phonation.
abstract: Examination of some acoustic characteristics of sustained pulse register phonation in normal adults confirmed the existence of two distinct waveform patterns. Trains of similar, highly damped waves with relatively uniform spacing predominated, but the "dicrotic" pattern previously described accounted for about 15% of the total sample. Average differences in the periods of continguous cycles (jitter) were extremely large--on the order of 20% of the fundamental period. Jitter did not vary with fundamental frequency according to the pattern documented in modal register and, thus, jitter ratio is not a useful normalizing descriptor of pulse register perturbation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010699:Phonation; D012016:Reference Values; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000502:physiology; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality