creaky

WordNet

having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs" (同)screaky
worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" (同)decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone
having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge (同)screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing
a squeaking sound; "the creak of the floorboards gave him away" (同)creaking

Garellek M1.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.J Acoust Soc Am.2015 Feb;137(2):822-31. doi: 10.1121/1.4906155.
American English has several linguistic sources of creaky voice. Two common sources are /t/-glottalization (where /t/ is produced as a glottal stop and/or with creaky voice, as in "button") and phrase-final creak. Both /t/-glottalization and phrase-final creak have similar acoustic properties, but t
PMID 25698016

Yu KM1, Lam HW2.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.J Acoust Soc Am.2014 Sep;136(3):1320. doi: 10.1121/1.4887462.
There are few studies on the role of phonation cues in the perception of lexical tones in tonal languages where pitch is the primary dimension of contrast. This study shows that listeners are sensitive to creaky phonation in native tonal perception in Cantonese, a language in which the low falling t
PMID 25190405

Modeling the biomechanical influence of epilaryngeal stricture on the vocal folds: a low-dimensional model of vocal-ventricular fold coupling.

Moisik SR, Esling JH.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR.J Speech Lang Hear Res.2014 Apr 1;57(2):S687-704. doi: 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-S-12-0279.
PURPOSE Physiological and phonetic studies suggest that, at moderate levels of epilaryngeal stricture, the ventricular folds impinge upon the vocal folds and influence their dynamical behavior, which is thought to be responsible for constricted laryngeal sounds. In this work, the authors examine thi
PMID 24687007

Anderson RC1, Klofstad CA2, Mayew WJ3, Venkatachalam M3.
PloS one.PLoS One.2014 May 28;9(5):e97506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097506. eCollection 2014.
Vocal fry is speech that is low pitched and creaky sounding, and is increasingly common among young American females. Some argue that vocal fry enhances speaker labor market perceptions while others argue that vocal fry is perceived negatively and can damage job prospects. In a large national sample
PMID 24870387