They are called the vocal folds, and the vocal folds alone doesn't create sound, it's not like a string. Only when air goes through them - they move, and only than they create sound.
By touching their throat's deaf people can distinguish between vocal/voised phonemes like z,g,d and unvoiced like f,s...
They can only feel if their vocal folds are moving or not, they can't learn in this way to distinguish betweem all the sounds.
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They are called the vocal folds, and the vocal folds alone doesn't create sound, it's not like a string. Only when air goes through them - they move, and only than they create sound.
By touching their throat's deaf people can distinguish between vocal/voised phonemes like z,g,d and unvoiced like f,s... They can only feel if their vocal folds are moving or not, they can't learn in this way to distinguish betweem all the sounds.