phonated

Updated: May 20, 2025

The spiritus asper is caused by a too slow contraction of the vocal cords and their too gradual approach for phonation. Dr. Van Baggen says that the vowel which is thus formed might be called an articulated vowel, which accurately describes the effect, the vowel being enunciated with the circumstance of the articulated consonant instead of with the ease of the phonated vowel.

Frank E. Miller - The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation