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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2018

Vocal instabilities in a three-dimensional body-cover phonation model.

Zhaoyan Zhang

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Application of nonlinear dynamics theory to understanding normal and pathologic voices in humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Characterization of upper esophageal sphincter pressures relative to vocal acoustics.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2025
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  8. The influence of sensor size on experimental measurement accuracy of vocal fold contact pressure.Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. Acoustical Society of America · 2023
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  11. Impact of the Paraglottic Space on Voice Production in an MRI-Based Vocal Fold Model.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2023
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  18. Estimation of vocal fold physiology from voice acoustics using machine learning.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020
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Zhaoyan ZhangDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, 31-24 Rehabilitation Center, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095-1794, USA.

Funding

TOWARD STANDARDIZING PERCEPTUAL VOICE-QUALITY MEASURESR01DC001797 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI KREIMAN, JODY E, ZHANG, ZHAOYAN · 1993 to 2020
$10.3M
Sound Sources of PhonationR01DC009229 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BERKE, GERALD S., ZHANG, ZHAOYAN · 2008 to 2017
$4.5M
Biomechanical Mechanisms of PhonationR01DC011299 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ZHANG, ZHAOYAN · 2011 to 2015
$2.4M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC001797NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009229NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011299
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this study is to identify vocal fold conditions that produce irregular vocal fold vibration and the underlying physical mechanisms. Using a three-dimensional computational model of phonation, parametric simulations are performed with co-variations in vocal fold geometry, stiffness, and vocal tract shape. For each simulation, the cycle-to-cycle variations in the amplitude and period of the glottal area function are calculated, based on which the voice is classified into three types corresponding to regular, quasi-steady or subharmonic, and chaotic phonation. The results show that vocal folds with a large medial surface vertical thickness and low transverse stiffness are more likely to exhibit irregular vocal fold vibration when tightly approximated and subject to high subglottal pressure. Transition from regular vocal fold vibration to vocal instabilities is often accompanied by energy redistribution among the first few vocal fold eigenmodes, presumably due to nonlinear interaction between eigenmodes during vocal fold contact. The presence of a vocal tract may suppress such contact-related vocal instabilities, but also induce new instabilities, particularly for less constricted vocal fold conditions, almost doubling the number of vocal fold conditions producing irregular vibration.

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Computer SimulationModels, BiologicalHumansPhonationVocal CordsVoice

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PMID30424612
PMCPMC6128715

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