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[email protected]. THE SOUND OF MEANING: THEORIES OF VOICE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY THOUGHT AND PERFORMANCE A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Theatre by Andrew McComb Kimbrough B.A., Wake Forest University, 1984 M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University, 1997 May 2002 © Copyright 2002 Andrew McComb Kimbrough All rights reserved ii To Liu Zhiguang iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . .v CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION. 1 2 THE VOICE IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY . 31 3 THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL VOICE. 82 4 THE MUTABLE VOICE IN THE LINGUISTIC TURN.