John Laver

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Laver is involved.

Title

Voice Quality: A classified research bibliography

John Laver

The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology,… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 5] 1979. viii, 225 pp.

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Laver, John 1978 The Concept of Articulatory Settings: An Historical Survey Historiographia Linguistica 5:1/2, pp. 1–14 | Article

‘Articulatory setting’ is a modern term for the component of a speaker’s voice quality that derives from a habitual muscular adjustment (such as tending to keep the tongue low in the mouth). The general concept of settings, as long-term tendencies underlying the momentary segmental and… read more