Related Term(s):

• murmur
• murmuring voice
• whispery voice

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 200360 (= breathy phonation; also "breathiness", "breathy vowel")
WELMERS 197328 (breathy vowel, breathiness)
GUMPERZ 1982102-103
MacKay 1989239
MATTHEWS 1997236
ELL5098

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• WELMERS, William E. (1973) African Language Structures. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• GUMPERZ, John J. (1982) Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang.
• MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Phonology