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The Vocal Fold Lamina Propria Is Built from the Same Elastin and Collagen

The bridge that makes the paper's second hypothesis coherent: the layered lamina propria under the vocal fold epithelium is an elastin/collagen matrix, and its stiffness is one of the terms that sets oscillation frequency. Shared material is the entire argument — state it as shared material, not as proof.

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Why does the stiffness of the lamina propria matter for the pitch a speaker produces?

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Histology of the vocal cords

The article walks through the cover-transition-body model of the mature vocal fold: epithelium and basement membrane over the superficial lamina propria (Reinke's space), then the intermediate and de…