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Definitions of creaky in various dictionaries:
adj - worn and broken down by hard use
adj - having a rasping or grating sound
adj - of or pertaining to arthritis
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| making or liable to make a creaking sound when being moved or when pressure is applied. |
| Tending to creak. |
| Shaky or infirm, as with age decrepit: creaky knee joints a creaky regime. |
| Making or liable to make a creaking sound when being moved or when pressure is applied. |
| Old-fashioned or decrepit. |
| Something that is creaky creaks: |
| used to describe something that is old-fashioned and not now effective: |
| worn and broken down by hard use |
| having a rasping or grating sound |
| of or pertaining to arthritis |
| Creaky might refer to |
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In linguistics, Creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact. They normally vibrate irregularly at 20–50 pulses per second, about two octaves below the frequency of normal voicing, and the airflow through the glottis is very slow. Although creaky voice may occur with very low pitch, as at the end of a long intonation unit, it can also occur with a higher pitch. * Creaky voice is prevalent as a peer-group affectation among young women in the United States. For example, researcher Ikuko Patricia Yuasa suggests that the tendency is a product of young women trying to infuse their speech with gravitas by means of reaching for the male register and found that "college-age Americans [...] perceive female creaky voice as hesitant, nonaggressive, and informal but also educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile." However, according to a 2012 study in PLOS ONE, young women using creaky voice are viewed as less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, less attractive and less employable. Some suggest that creaky voice can function as a marker of parentheticals in conversations; creaky voice may indicate that certain phrases, when uttered with creaky voice, contain less central information. In some languages, such as Jalapa Mazatec, creaky voice has a phonemic status; that is, the presence or absence of creaky voice can change the meaning of a word. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, creaky voice of a phone is represented by a diacritical tilde U+0330 ̰ COMBINING TILDE BELOW, for example [d̰]. The Danish prosodic feature stød is an example of a form of laryngealisation that has a phonemic function. * A slight degree of laryngealisation, occurring in some Korean consonants for example, is called "stiff voice". |
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