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Phonation
(redirected from phonate)

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phonation [fō′nā·shən]
(engineering acoustics)
Production of speech sounds.
(linguistics)
Any sound mace during speech.

Phonation 

in phonetics, the physical process of forming audible speech sounds. Phonation, the combined activity of the vocal apparatus, results in articulation. The term also designates the acoustic features of a sound that result in its aural perception and analysis. The production and perception of sounds interact in accordance with the principle of feedback. In the formation of a sound, the speaker’s acoustic regulation plays an important role, and in the perception of a sound, acoustic (sensory) analysis is supplemented by the listener’s internal articulatory (motor) regulation; that is, by analysis through synthesis.



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The patient's surgeon was concerned about possible RLN injury secondary to the surgical procedure and wanted to complete the procedure with die patient awake and under minimal sedation, ensuring die patient would be able to phonate on command.
Once the process has begun, the granuloma may hold the vocal folds apart; this requires that the patient use more force to phonate, which in turn causes even more trauma.
With a tongue blade on the central portion of the tongue, the patient was asked to phonate in order to tense the oropharyngeal musculature and medialize the tonsils.
 
 
 
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