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Vocal styles

These types of vocal resonance may be illustrated with a continual series of vocal practices that have been studied through physiologic and electroacoustic analysis. This perceptual series begins with the full, loud, and sonorous sound during the natural vocalizations for laughing, yawning, and yodelling. The rich higher harmonics responsible for the perceptual qualities of these vocalizations are produced by a maximally lowered larynx and greatly widened resonator. At the next step is the sonorous and full sound of so-called covered singing in the German opera style. Rich in higher harmonics (or overtones), this vocal style is performed with ... (100 of 8498 words)

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Speech - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)

Speech, or talking, is the form of language that people can hear. (Writing is the other main form of language.) People use speech to communicate with others.

speech - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)

The ability to express and communicate thoughts, emotions, and abstract ideas by spoken words-speech-is one of the features that distinguishes humans from other animals. Speech is the spoken form of language, the system of symbols by which humans communicate (see Language).

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