Another prediction is that voiced aspirated stops should tend to associate with breathy voiced sonorants.
Valves of the throat 173 categories: two involving modal vocal register, one with breathy vocal register and five showing harsh vocal register.
In other words, unlike the norm for humans, chimpanzees breathe in and out as they produce a breathy, panting laughter.
That is, the relative pitch of the breathy tone is not crucial to the lexical contrast, as it varies with respect to other pitch patterns.
Breathy voice is implemented primarily through abducting the vocal folds via the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.
It's a bit breathy in the middle, there are more harmonics and a richer colour, it is stronger especially at the bottom.
Instead, the reliable and constant cue to the contrast is its breathy quality.
The writing is graceless and full of breathy schoolgirl-isms ("an amazing book," "incredibly important") and the editing is poor.
