Laryngographic Analysis and Intonation

Intonation and voice quality are studied for a variety of reasons by workers in a wide range of often overlapping disciplines. Psychologists and psychiatrists may use these features to obtain information about the personality and psychological state of patients. See for example, Pittenger (1957), McQuown (1957) and Hockett et al. (i960). Physiologists, neurologists and clinicians, among others, are concerned to establish the mechanisms involved in phonation and pitch change (see Harris, Sawashima). Linguists and phoneticians analyse the systematic use of intonation and voice quality in language - their grammatical, semantic and social roles - and seek to establish their perceptual and physiological correlates. Crystal (1969), Halliday (1967), Fry (1958), Chan (1971), Fourcin (1968).