Review: Laryngeal Dynamics and Physiological Models: High Speed Imaging and Acoustical Techniques
書評：動態聲門與生理模型
R. J. Baken

Abstract 摘要
Kong’s Laryngeal Dynamics and Physiological Models offers an admirable–indeed, a heroic— advance in our critical seeing, measuring, and analysis of glottalbehavior. Furthermore, to this reviewer’s knowledge, Kong makes the only credibleattempt to apply his observational methods and analytic techniques to theclarification of the phonemic (as opposed to the suprasegmental) value of phonatorybehavior in both “classically” tonal languages (such as Mandarin or Cantonese) andin languages that use phonatory type (for instance, creaky voice) as a phonemicfeature, as do several of the minority languages of China (such as Miao) that Prof.Kong has studied extensively. It is worthy of special note and recognition thatKong, in investigating glottal function, has chosen not to go the well-traveled routeof most modern researchers, relying solely on a few acoustic characteristics andglottographic (in sense of the word used by Titze and Talkins) waveforms, such asthe inverse filtered flow signal or the electroglottogram, as the basis for physiologicinference about glottal behavior. He appreciates –and uses—some of these “easier”and less direct methods, but he insists, at considerable cost in investigatorycomplexity and difficulty, on actually watching what is going on.