Abstract
ABSTRACT Throaty speech sounds like glottal stops, creaky voice, and epiglottal stops are phonemic speech sounds found in various languages cross-linguistically, yet voice and speech literature has historically associated such sounds with poor vocal technique, vocal misuse, and/or vocal abuse. Currently, there is no clear evidence to support the notion that speech sounds which serve as realizations of phonemes in one language are unhealthy when used prosodically in another. Speech sounds targeted (both historically and contemporarily) for reduction and removal from speech patterns for supposed health concerns in English-speaking voice training tend to be the same speech sounds which are targeted as socially undesirable compared with standardized accents of English. Critical examination of cross-linguistic evidence, social context, and previous historical assumptions are necessary to challenge the classification of a speech sound as poor technique or vocal misuse/abuse.
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