Bureau of Glottal Affairs
The UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs is a confederation of laboratories engaged in the study of voice. The depth and breadth of expertise represented among our members allows us to pursue a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the study of voice, including methods drawn from biomechanics, medicine, cognitive psychology, linguistics, physics, engineering, and critical theory. Our work together reflects our shared view that voice can best be understood as a unitary process in which production, acoustics, and perception interact to shape and constrain each, so that each phase in the “speech chain” can only be understood in the context of the others.