Question
This register is sometimes used in heavy metal vocals to create a harsh growl. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this lowest vocal register, in which the vocal folds vibrate irregularly. Along with uptalk and frequent usage of the word “like,” this register is a defining feature of the valley girl dialect.
ANSWER: vocal fry register [or creakiness; or creaky voice; or pulse register/phonation; or croakiness; or laryngealization; or glottal fry; or glottal rattle; or glottal scrape; or Strohbass; accept fry scream]
[10e] Gretchen McCulloch, a linguist from this country, characterized vocal fry as a “language innovation” by teenage girls. This country names a “raising” of diphthongs that can make the word “about” sound like “aboot.”
ANSWER: Canada [accept Canadian Raising]
[10h] This language's tonal system uses a “creak” tone with vocal fry as well as low, high, and checked tones. This language is grouped with Loloish in a namesake branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.
ANSWER: Burmese [or mranmabhasa (myum-a-BA-tha); or Myanmar language; accept Lolo-Burmese; accept Burmic languages; accept Mian-Yi]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
Data
| Penn State A | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Penn State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan C | Ohio | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio State | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |