Editing Paralanguage (section)

=== Organic aspects ===
The [[speech organ]]s of different speakers differ in size. As children grow up, their organs of speech become larger, and there are differences between male and female adults. The differences concern not only size, but also proportions. They affect the pitch of the [[human voice|voice]] and to a substantial extent also the [[formant|formant frequencies]], which characterize the different [[Phone (phonetics)|speech sounds]]. The organic quality of speech has a communicative function in a restricted sense, since it is merely informative about the speaker. It will be expressed independently of the speaker's intention.