Sound Production and Accents: Podcast on "Do I Sound Gay?"
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:24 pm
Was just listening to a podcast that I found interesting on sound production, accents and attitudes towards them.
Not sure I can embed, so here is the link: http://www.npr.org/2015/07/11/421470117 ... -sound-gay
In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe discusses the so-called "gay voice" and reveals his own attempt (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay." (broadcast July 7, 2015). He is the author of a recent documentary on the subject and that is where the title comes from.
I found it interesting in that the podcast also discussed glottal fry and upspeak. Personally I disagree with Ms. Sanskin (interviewed in the podcast) that glottal fry is somehow detrimental to the vocal mechanism - quite a few families of languages in the world have glottal phonemes.
A counter opinion on the podcast and possible stigma presented is voiced by Dr Khan. (with whom I agree strongly):
http://www.reed.edu/linguistics/khan/kh ... ygross.pdf
Still, an interesting podcast. Regionalisms and the attitudes towards them are also briefly discussed.
(As this might be a topic where people may consider attitudes towards language production as sensitive, please be respectful. Mods feel free to lock/clean, if things get out of hand).
Not sure I can embed, so here is the link: http://www.npr.org/2015/07/11/421470117 ... -sound-gay
In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe discusses the so-called "gay voice" and reveals his own attempt (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay." (broadcast July 7, 2015). He is the author of a recent documentary on the subject and that is where the title comes from.
I found it interesting in that the podcast also discussed glottal fry and upspeak. Personally I disagree with Ms. Sanskin (interviewed in the podcast) that glottal fry is somehow detrimental to the vocal mechanism - quite a few families of languages in the world have glottal phonemes.
A counter opinion on the podcast and possible stigma presented is voiced by Dr Khan. (with whom I agree strongly):
http://www.reed.edu/linguistics/khan/kh ... ygross.pdf
Still, an interesting podcast. Regionalisms and the attitudes towards them are also briefly discussed.
(As this might be a topic where people may consider attitudes towards language production as sensitive, please be respectful. Mods feel free to lock/clean, if things get out of hand).