Stiff voice
Template:Short description Template:IPA notice Template:Infobox IPA/core1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The term stiff voice describes the pronunciation of consonants or vowels with a glottal opening narrower, and the vocal folds stiffer, than occurs in modal voice. Although there is no specific IPA diacritic for stiff voice, the voicing diacritic (a subscript wedge) may be used in conjunction with the symbol for a voiced consonant.[1]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In Bru, for example, stiff-voiced vowels have tenseness in the glottis and pharynx without going so far as to be creaky voiced, whereas slack-voiced vowels are lax in the glottis without going so far as to be breathy voice.[2]
One language with stiff voice is Thai:[1]
| Bilabial | Dental | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| phonation | Thai | IPA | gloss | Thai | IPA | gloss |
| stiff voice | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
| tenuis | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
| aspirated | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Transliteration | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
Javanese contrasts stiff and slack voiced bilabial, dental, retroflex, and velar stops.[1]
| Bilabial | Dental Stop | Dental Affricate | Retroflex | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| phonation | IPA | gloss | IPA | gloss | IPA | gloss | IPA | gloss | IPA | gloss |
| stiff voice | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
| slack voice | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
Mpi (Loloish) contrasts modals and stiff voice in its vowels. This is not register: for each of the six Mpi tones, a word may have either a modal or stiff-voiced vowel. For example, low tone contrasts Script error: No such module "IPA". Template:Gloss and Script error: No such module "IPA". Template:Gloss.[1]