The singer’s formant arises from a laryngeal cavity resonance shaped by false vocal folds

Evidence

How it this formant achieved? Sundberg looked into this, and concluded that the formation of a cavity just outside the vocal folds, with its own approximately 3000 Hz resonance, is the key. The cavity is shaped with the help of the false vocal fold. Untrained singers do not show this capacity. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1684

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the mechanism (false vocal fold cavity) that produces the singer’s formant.
• XREF: connects to: A singer’s formant near 3 kHz lets trained voices cut through orchestra sound — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1380