The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The action is organized in the form of separate numbers-scenes, often almost unrelated to each other: dialogues of characters referring to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to Samuel Beckett’s absurdist drama Waiting for Godot, vocal and dance scenes, musical fragments, acrobatic tricks, performative methods of playing with requisites. …”
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Management of Dysphagia Pre- and Postoperatively in a Case of Eagle’s Syndrome by Vicki Lewis, Bari Hoffman Ruddy, Jeffrey Lehman, Erin Silverman, Brian Spector

“…Additional symptoms can include hypersalivation, change in vocal quality, submandibular swelling, and dysphagia. …”
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Penser la force politique des voix trans et féministes en musique by Liz Escalle-Dyachenko

“…Its goal is to examine, from a situated knowledge perspective, how trans vocal practices can achieve to produce and represent feminist positions and politics that encourage body autonomy and emancipation. …”
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Noah Webster and the standardization of sound by Elaina FRULLA

“…The chapter also examines the obstacles Webster faced during his mission to develop a national language, which included overcoming regional vocal differences and halting what he perceived as the corruptive influence of foreign languages. …”
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A Multimodal Study of How Pronunciation-Induced Communication Breakdowns are Managed During Tandem Interactions by Loulou Kosmala, Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer

“…More specifically, our analyses target the ways in which CBs are signaled to the interlocutor with different multimodal cues (verbal / vocal / visual). Those pronunciation issues are dealt with in a highly collaborative manner, through multimodal communication strategies, revealing recurrent visual patterns involving different visible body articulators (i.e., the face, the trunk, and the hands) which differ according to participants’ status (native versus non-native).…”
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Lymphoma Presenting as Acute-Onset Dysphagia by Daniel B. Simmons, Andrew W. Bursaw

“…A 61-year-old man with recent Bell’s palsy developed acute vocal cord paralysis causing severe dysphagia. CSF analysis showed elevated protein and a normal cell count; contrast-enhanced MRI of the brain was normal. …”
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Maybe to blot out the voice : Vocaliser l’horreur dans quelques pièces de Pinter, Churchill et Crimp by Laetitia Pasquet

“…What emerges from this paradox is an ethics of voicing that has to overcome the failure of the logos in order to restore the victims’ voices and invent vocal and verbal strategies to be able to deal with extreme horror, thus restoring the sense of humanity shattered by horror.…”
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Sarcoidosis with Major Airway, Vascular and Nerve Compromise by Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Jun Suzuki, James P Utz

“…Bronchoscopy showed left vocal cord paralysis and significant narrowing of the bilateral bronchi with mucosal thickening and multiple nodules. …”
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Les chanteuses à la barre by Mélanie Traversier

“…On this basis, this article falls within the conjunction of a dual recent historiographical renewal considering the performing arts: on the one hand, the history of the relationships between law, legal practices and drama; on the other hand, the history of opera and vocal performances revisited by the gender studies.…”
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Acoustic and Electroglottographic Characteristics Associated with Tracheoesophageal Speech of Cantonese by Manwa Lawrence Ng, Nan Yan, Kalai Nana Chiu, Yang Chen

“…Results were discussed in terms of higher sound source position, greater tissue density, slower movement during closing phase and a periodic vibration of neoglottis of TE speakers than the vocal folds of NL speakers.…”
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DER MUSIKALISCHE SPRACHE DES KOMPONISTEN PIERRE VILLETTE IN DEN „A CAPPELLA MOTETTEN HYMNE A LA VIERGE (OP. 24) UND PANIS ANGELICUS (OP. 80)“ by Miklós FEKETE

“… This paper presents first of all the importance of the 20th century French composer Pierre Villette, who’s instrumental, vocal-instrumental and choral works are relatively unknown even between musicians. …”
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Photodocumentation of the Development of Type I Posterior Glottic Stenosis after Intubation Injury by Nelson Scott Howard, Travis L. Shiba, Julianna E. Pesce, Dinesh K. Chhetri

“…Bilateral vocal fold immobility may result from bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis or physiologic insults to the airway such as glottic scars. …”
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La modulation sociale de la voix ne compromet pas le mécanisme de phenotype matching chez le mandrill by Florence Levréro, Greta Carrete-Vega, Anais Herbert, Ismaël Lawabi † 2015, Alexandre Courtiol, Eric Willaume, Peter M. Kappeler, Marie J.E. Charpentier

“…In particular, no study has yet unambiguously disentangled mechanisms based on learned familiarity from true phenotype matching in kin discrimination based on vocal signals. Here we show that in addition to genetic background, social accommodation also shapes individual voices in an Old World monkey (Mandrillus sphinx), even though primate vocalizations were thought to be innate and little flexible. …”
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Critical Issues in an Unmotivated Patient with Alcohol Dependence by Nidhi Vadhavekar, Saloni Chatwani, Avinash Desousa, Hardik Sheth, Kavitha V. Dongerkery, Pradnya Deolekar

“…The patient had a history of AUD, alcoholic liver cirrhosis, HIV, and squamous-cell carcinoma of the vocal cords. The patient’s AUD was characterized by cluster B personality disorder traits, and treatment involved a multidisciplinary approach (acamprosate, sertraline, nicotine replacement therapy, psychotherapy, and admission into a rehabilitation center). …”
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Acutely Obstructed Airway Resulting from Complications of a Laryngopyocoele by Rosalind Mole, Stephen Hayes, Simon Dennis

“…Nasendoscopy revealed large bilateral vocal cord polyps and near-complete glottis obstruction. …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…After a first career, with his brother William, in the aera of popular irish theatre, he tried to apply in the Abbey the vocal training of the “french model”, from Coquelin to… Sarah Bernhardt, and the Paris Conservatoire. …”
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Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…As we shall see, while Leibniz’s doctrine did win a good number of adherents in the 1720s and 1730s, especially in Germany, support for it had largely dried up by the mid-1740s; moreover, while opponents of Leibniz’s doctrine were few and far between in the 1710s and 1720s, they became increasing vocal in the 1730s and afterwards, between them producing an array of objections that served to make Leibnizian optimism both philosophically and theologically toxic years before the Lisbon earthquake struck.…”
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Richard Hurrell Froude et le spectre du désétablissement by Hervé Picton

“…If the vast majority of the clergy staunchly opposed disestablishment, Tractarian leaders generally thought the Church would benefit from it. The most vocal and systematic supporter of disestablishment was Hurrell Froude who, in « Remarks on State Interference in Matters spiritual » (1833), argues that if the establishment was justified under Elizabeth’s reign (when Parliament was a lay synod of the Church), it is no longer tolerable now that the State is no longer exclusively Anglican. …”
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GOLF: A Singing Voice Synthesiser with Glottal Flow Wavetables and LPC Filters by Chin-Yun Yu, György Fazekas

“…GOLF employs a glottal model as the harmonic source and LPC filters to simulate the vocal tract, resulting in an interpretable and efficient synthesis approach. …”
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Segmentation and Classification of Vowel Phonemes of Assamese Speech Using a Hybrid Neural Framework by Mousmita Sarma, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

“…The first formant frequency of all the Assamese vowels is predetermined by estimating pole or formant location from the linear prediction (LP) model of the vocal tract. The proposed algorithm shows a high recognition performance in comparison to the conventional Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based segmentation.…”
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