When there is a breaking voice in boys. Transitional age in boys

Mutation or “breaking” of voice in adolescents is due to serious changes in the hormonal background. The breaking of the voice is primarily affected by boys, but in some cases, girls have certain problems with the voice during this period.

How does a voice break?

Voice mutation occurs during puberty. Testosterone enters the boy’s blood in large quantities, this sex hormone causes the glottis to expand, as a result, the voice acquires a hoarseness and a lower frequency, characteristic of men.

Before the “breaking”, the structure of the vocal apparatus in girls and boys is identical. Until a certain age, it is impossible to determine the gender of a child by his voice. From about ten years old boys experience the first changes in their voice, begin to speak in a lower tone than girls. This is due to the fact that in boys the ligaments and glottis grow a little faster, similar changes are associated with the physiological characteristics of growing up. At the age of ten to twelve years, the boy’s glottis on average exceeds the girl’s glottis by only one and a half millimeters, and the difference in the tonality of the sound is already very noticeable.

Voice changes can occur between eleven and eighteen years. A later mutation most often indicates certain problems with the hormonal background and male health of the adolescent. Breaking a voice usually takes no more than two months, during this time period the voice completely changes the tone and timbre, which then remain unchanged throughout life. Only burns, trauma to the larynx or abuse of bad habits can change them.

Ongoing changes

In the process of breaking, the vocal cords thicken significantly, and the glottis widens. In addition, very noticeable anatomical changes in the skeleton of the larynx occur in boys. The thyroid and other laryngeal cartilages are rapidly increasing in size, while the front edge of the larynx protrudes forward, forming an Adam's apple.

To break the voice faster, the vocal cords need to be loaded as little as possible, because due to overvoltage on the ligaments, nodules can occur that cause a very noticeable hoarseness. If the load on the speech apparatus decreases, part of the nodules can resolve itself, but sometimes you have to resort to surgical intervention.

It is worth considering that a variety of colds can prolong the mutation of the voice. However, the reddening of the throat in a teenager during the period of “breaking” the voice can be caused not by a respiratory infection, but directly by the growth of the larynx, since active growth enhances blood circulation in this area.

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Voice formation in both men and women is a rather complex and multi-stage process. At least 5 body systems participate in it: lungs, chest, nasopharynx, vocal folds (they are also called “ligaments”, but this is wrong), articulatory apparatus and larynx. The voice is formed precisely at the moment when the air inhaled by a person passes through the vocal folds, which begin to oscillate and vibrate, and sound, as you know, is born during the oscillation.

Since the vocal folds tend to grow, the voice in children, when they are completely undeveloped, is high, squeaky. You can’t deceive nature, because it has foreseen everything: children need such voices so that their parents can hear them even at long distances.

When do boys change their voice?

It is impossible to say for sure that at the age of 12 the boy’s voice is sure to change and “break”. Not! Firstly, in boys, the process of changing the voice proceeds faster, because vocal folds grow and thicken at a faster pace. For girls, this process is somewhat delayed in time, so by about 10 - 12 years, the difference in votes becomes obvious. After a couple of years (about 13-14 years), sex hormones interfere with the voice mutation process, because in boys, puberty begins. It is at this moment that the voice changes a lot, because the growth and thickening of the vocal folds are now affected by hormones.

One can’t say for sure about the duration of the voice mutation process, because breaking can last from one month to several years. On average, the process takes a couple of months, during which time the growing men already have time to get used to their new "sound."

I draw your attention to the fact that boys experience serious psychological problems during the period of voice change, so parents need to be more attentive and condescending to their child during this period of his development. Adults should avoid screaming and loud tones that turn to bass. In no case can you bring the situation to the point that the child himself screams, because a loud scream can cause damage to his voice folds, which is fraught with the development of voice problems. The strong tension of the warehouses at the stage of their active growth can lead to the formation of "nodules" that greatly change the voice. Among other things, screams can provoke hemorrhage in the tissue folds.

What is early puberty?

I want to draw your special attention to the fact that the age of 13-14 years for breaking the voice is very conditional. The average boundary of voice breaking (puberty) is defined in this range, but, like in any other rule, exceptions can be present in this. In medical practice, there are indeed cases when boys have earlier (for example, at 8-10 years old) puberty, as well as situations when it occurs at a late age (for example, at 18 years old).

In this situation we are interested in the earlier puberty in boys, although it is called “early” only if it begins before 10 years of age. 11 years of age in boys is considered absolutely normal for certain changes in his body - puberty.

At about 11 to 13 years old (in this case, you are exactly 11 years old) in a certain area of \u200b\u200bthe child’s brain (gland hypothalamus), the production of the hormone gonadoliberin begins. It is this hormone that is involved in the formation of sperm and other sex hormones. As mentioned earlier, it is these sex hormones, androgens, that affect the vocal folds, which begin to actively increase in size and thicken. Accordingly, there is also a change in voice, its mutation, which is called "breaking".

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Before the onset of puberty, while the activity of the gonads is low, the voices of boys and girls differ little from each other, especially in early childhood. However, over time, the child’s voice becomes stronger, intonation is enriched, and the range expands.

Noticeable metamorphoses begin shortly after puberty begins. Particularly serious changes occur with the voice of teenage boys. Under the influence of androgens, their larynx grows, cartilage protrudes forward, and the vocal cords increase in size, become longer and thicker. From this, the voice changes - it becomes lower and coarser. In the process of mutation, boys' voices are unstable, transitions between low and high voices are abrupt and unexpected.

After the end of puberty, the voice is affected mainly by diseases (chronic laryngitis, respiratory tract infections, tumors), stress (singing, the need to speak a lot and loudly), as well as smoking, drinking alcohol. Women often have low voices during pregnancy. Voice changes are possible due to diseases of the endocrine system, for example, coarsening of the voice in women suffering from myxedema or hyperandrogenism.

About 40 years, with the beginning of a decrease in reproductive function and a decrease in the production of sex hormones, voice aging begins. It becomes more deaf and lower, pectoral. This is less noticeable in people who are professionally engaged in singing, due to the constant training of the vocal apparatus.

After 50 years, changes increase, become more noticeable. The mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract atrophies, the larynx lowers, its lumen expands. The tension of the vocal cords is weakened, which makes the voice even lower, and trembling appears (“senile rattling”).

Due to the low elasticity of the vocal cords and the proliferation of connective tissue in them, the voice can break. The strength of the voice is incomparable with that of a young and adulthood due to a natural decrease in lung volume. The emotional coloring of the voice also becomes less bright, its sexual differentiation is weakened.

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Aging is a natural process in the body. He will come, and no one can escape this. With age, the human body begins to change. Moreover, in some people it can undergo minimal changes, while in others it can become completely different. The character of a person, as well as his behavior, is changing.

After 20 years, the brain begins to age. People’s thoughts are becoming more mature. If in childhood a person dreamed of sweets, toys and other benefits, then in more adult age the requests become much more serious. A small child requires unquestioning fulfillment of his desires. The teenager begins to realize that not everything in this world will be the way he wants. An adult begins to plan something and achieve his goals, realizing that nothing will change if he does not put his own efforts into it.

The appearance of the skin also changes with age. The first wrinkles appear about 30 years. Women tend to rejuvenate their skin using various means. However, time cannot be stopped - velvety baby skin is replaced by smooth young, and then becomes wrinkled old. The face, and the whole body as a whole, is undergoing changes. Sometimes, having met a person after many years of separation, it is not always possible to recognize him. Time does its job and changes our body.

With age, a person begins to lose muscle mass. After 40 years, vision begins to deteriorate. If a person saw well in his youth, then by the age of forty he will develop farsightedness. The skeletal system becomes less resistant to damage, and the male skeleton loses less minerals than the female. In men, the risk of cardiovascular disease is increasing. Atherosclerosis may occur.

By the age of fifty, problems with memory and concentration may occur. Hearing in 20 percent of cases also worsens. The risk of hearing loss may arise from 45 to 65 years. Due to the fact that the heart is slower, the hands and feet of a person become colder.

Having grown old, a person becomes lower than his usual height. Posture will no longer be straight, and the body will obediently obey. Some people become fuller by age, the skin becomes saggy. There is nowhere to go from wrinkles - you had to fight them in youth, maybe then they would be less by old age. But no one can guarantee this. Time does not spare anyone and it is impossible to stop him.

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How does human intelligence change with age

Whether someone likes it or not, a person changes externally and internally over the years. Changes occur in the body, the body as a whole, in character, worldview.

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Under the pressure of the media, promoting beauty and sexual attractiveness at any age, more and more people are afraid of aging. Particularly desperate lie under the knife, trying, if not to return time to sleep, then at least stop. But the physiological process cannot be stopped by either doctors or scientists.

Time is running out!

The past years do not pass without leaving a trace, leaving their marks in the form of wrinkles, scars, sagging. During childhood and adolescence, growing up, changes in the body are more noticeable. He still has enough strength, does not worry about health problems and chronic ailments. From about 30 years old, many begin to catch themselves thinking that there were wrinkles in the eyes that were not there, the weight increased by several kilograms and jumping was no longer as easy as five years ago.

With age, taste buds atrophy, as a result of which, food seems less tasty. Therefore, a person begins to lean on salt, sugar, fats and other additives. All this will not slow to manifest on the condition of the digestive tract and skin. Also, a person begins to lose muscle mass. It is replaced by fat, which is distributed unevenly throughout the body. Teeth are being destroyed, kidneys are “fooling around", and the liver is gradually losing. The body wears out, but not only because of its exploitation. His condition is affected by ecology and lifestyle. Although there is no cure for aging, the correct regimen makes it easier to survive physiological changes.

Character, state of mind and general condition

Over the years, a person changes not only externally. Age also influences the character, attitude, views of a person. Often, some non-moral aspects are exacerbated. Man already seems to have nothing to hide and pretend, you can show yourself in all its glory. Irritability, emotionality, or, conversely, self-closure are often associated with hormonal levels, unbalanced nutrition, neurotic diseases, and vascular problems.

In addition, the lifestyle is gradually changing. If a woman, accustomed to caring for household members for many years, is left alone, she has no desire and does not see the point of cooking, cleaning, living only for herself. The man the wife cared about all the time becomes completely absent-minded and helpless when he needs to manage himself. Relative people become good helpers, listeners and just a joy in such situations.

A person changes over the years and often not for the better. But this is a completely natural and natural process that you need not fear, you need to prepare for it.

The voice is born using several body systems: the larynx, the vocal folds (in everyday speech they are called ligaments), lungs, chest and nasopharynx. A stream of air escaping from the lungs causes the vocal folds to oscillate at a certain frequency, while the chest and nasopharynx serve as resonators. The larger and thicker the vocal folds, the lower the sound. Although not always. For example, Caruso, for example, had two times more vocal folds than any other profundo bass, while Caruso sang as a tenor.

In boys, as in girls, the larynx is small, folds are small, and only their edges vibrate under the influence of a jet of air. Experts call this the falsetto mechanism of the birth of sound. The larynx is like a whistle. Nature conceived so that a child with all the sound-generating systems so far small could still be heard. And in fact, the squeals of children are so audible that, for example, going to a school break, you can simply go deaf.

But at the age of 13-14, under the influence of a variety of hormones, mainly genital, boys begin to grow, lengthen and thicken their vocal folds. These folds are a hormone-dependent structure. It is not for nothing that the eunuchs' voice remains high, childish - they themselves have a complex of quite adult men, and the vocal folds do not reach adult sizes, because sex hormones are not produced in the body.

For the same reason, the voice of older people becomes higher - because there are less and less sex hormones in the body. And for women in old age, on the contrary, the voice sounds in lower tones, again there are not enough hormones, only for women who change the folds so that the sound is high and sonorous.

An adult can speak and sing with falsetto even with a normally developed voice apparatus. True, without a habit, this is not very convenient. But it’s fashionable, not without reason that some radio hosts say so and Presnyakov Jr. sings. For an adult, such a mechanism of sound formation is still more natural when the entire fold vibrates, the voice wave travels both horizontally and vertically. Therefore, an adult voice is deeper, more beautiful, varied in color. In ordinary speech, we use 2-3 tones above and below our main tone. And the singer takes two octaves.

Fear of the new

For a teenager to switch from falsetto to a full-fledged process of sound formation is difficult. But the problem here is more likely not physiological, but psychological: the boy is used to the sound of his childish voice, and the new voice - baritone or bass - scares him. When talking, he uses the old mechanism of the birth of sound, then the new one.

Since the children grow unevenly, one guy may also be a small sprout, and his bass is already breaking through with might and main, and the other has waved a mile and a half, the larynx is still small, the voice is still childish. Such boys, who are ahead of their peers or lagging behind them, have the hardest time, they are shy of their voice more than others. But for most, breaking a voice is a normal physiological process: the voice has become lower and rougher - well, okay. Most quickly find a new mechanism for the formation of sounds. In rare cases, one of the adolescents needs the help of a phonopedist, a voice specialist who usually works with singers. Unless to those of those who grow up surrounded by women alone. These boys even have no one to imitate, no one to take an example from. But even one lesson is usually enough for them, in which the doctor or phonologist will show exercises for setting and fixing a normal male voice.

Three features

There are three characteristics of a teenage mutation that parents should know about.

● During the breaking of the voice, it is not necessary to load the vocal folds.And the boys, unfortunately, do not cherish them, they strain at every step: then, playing football, they scream like crazy, then they sing songs loudly with a guitar ... Due to overstrain, nodules can appear on the folds, their doctors called - knots of screamers. These nodules change the vibration of the folds and the voice becomes hoarse. Some nodules then resolve by themselves if the loads fall, but sometimes you have to remove them - to do microsurgical operations.

● Colds can drag out a mutation.Not always a red throat in a teenager is a sign of a respiratory infection. When the larynx grows, blood circulation increases in it, the tissues become more red, it seems that the child has laryngitis. They begin to treat the boy for a cold, give him medications, and take him to doctors ... But there is only a normal physiological process.

If the mutation has dragged on, that is, the boy has already stopped growing up, and his voice has never become manly low, you need to show the teenager a phoniatrist. The longer a guy speaks with falsetto, the more difficult it will be for him to switch to adult tones.

● What "adult" voice will be for a beautifully singing little boy, we are not destined to know.There is a high pure voice in childhood, but a mutation has passed, and the voice has turned out to be the most banal - both in color, in timbre, and in strength. A well-known example is Robertino Loretti. And nothing can be done: what is given is given.

A curious case.Once, an officer, and not the smallest rank, turned to phoniatrists - doctors who study the features of the voice apparatus. It’s a grown man, and his voice is like a boy’s. It turns out frivolously. Doctors helped him, taught to speak baritone.

The otorhinolaryngologist and phoniatrist, MD, tells Gennady Ivanchenko.

Whistles and flutes

In boys, as in girls, the larynx is small, folds are small, and only their edges vibrate under the influence of a jet of air. Experts call this the falsetto mechanism of the birth of sound. The larynx is like a whistle. Nature conceived so that a child with all the sound-generating systems so far small could still be heard. And in fact, the squeals of children are so audible that, for example, going to a school break, you can simply go deaf.

Folds - hormone-dependent structure

But at the age of 13-14, under the influence of a variety of hormones, mainly genital, boys begin to grow, lengthen and thicken their vocal folds. These folds are a hormone-dependent structure. It is not for nothing that the eunuchs have a high voice, children’s - they themselves have a complex of quite adult men, and the vocal folds do not reach adult sizes, because sex hormones are not produced in the body.

An adult can speak and sing with falsetto even with a normally developed voice apparatus. True, without a habit it is not very convenient. But it’s fashionable, not without reason that some radio hosts say so and Presnyakov Jr. sings. For an adult, such a mechanism of sound formation is still more natural when the entire fold vibrates, the voice wave travels both horizontally and vertically. Therefore, an adult voice is deeper, more beautiful, varied in color. In ordinary speech, we use 2-3 tones above and below our main tone. And the singer takes two octaves.

Fear of the new

For a teenager to switch from falsetto to a full-fledged process of sound formation is difficult. But the problem here is probably not psychological, but rather: the boy is used to the sound of his childish voice, and the new voice - the baritone or bass - scares him. When talking, he uses the old mechanism of the birth of sound, then the new one.

Three features

There are three characteristics of a teenage mutation that parents should know about.

● During the breaking of the voice, it is not necessary to load the vocal folds. And the boys, unfortunately, do not cherish them, they strain at every step: then, playing football, they scream like crazy, then they sing songs loudly with a guitar ... Due to overstrain, nodules can appear on the folds, doctors call them that - knots of screamers. These nodules change the vibration of the folds and the voice becomes hoarse. Some nodules then resolve by themselves if the loads fall, but sometimes you have to remove them - to do microsurgical operations.

● Colds can drag out a mutation. Not always a red throat in a teenager is a sign of a respiratory infection. When the larynx grows, blood circulation increases in it, the tissues become more red, it seems that the child has laryngitis. They begin to treat the boy for a cold, give him medications, and take him to doctors ... But there is only a normal physiological process.

● What "adult" voice will be for a beautifully singing little boy, we are not destined to know. There is a high pure voice in childhood, but a mutation has passed, and the voice has turned out to be the most banal - both in color, in timbre, and in strength. A well-known example is Robertino Loretti. And nothing can be done: what is given is given.

Interesting

A curious case. Once, an officer, and not the smallest rank, turned to phoniatrists - doctors who study the features of the voice apparatus. It’s quite an adult, and the voice is like a boy’s. It turns out frivolously. Doctors helped him, taught to speak baritone.