Abstract
The human voice is the sound produced by the passage of air across the vocal folds, and it is used for many functions, including speech. In turn, speech is defined as the process of making a sound with a coherent meaning according to the linguistic convention of any language. For the full execution of this function, a complex process must occur that depends on many variables, including the proper closure of the velopharyngeal sphincter (VPS) in the articulation of oral phonemes (Garcia 1854; Skolnick and McCall 1973).
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Alonso, N., Lima, J.E., Jenny, H.E. (2018). Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: Etiopathology and Treatment. In: Alonso, N., Raposo-Amaral, C. (eds) Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63290-2_12
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