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.
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Sound Production and Accents: Podcast on "Do I Sound Gay?"
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Re: Sound Production and Accents: Podcast on "Do I Sound Gay?"
The speech pathologist makes her living off of other people's insecurities and is trying to amplify those insecurities as much as possible.
I've been looking forward to the documentary. I hope it's generally more positive about sounding gay than this interview suggests. It looks like he at least interviews a bunch of people who are comfortable with their own gay voices.
I've been looking forward to the documentary. I hope it's generally more positive about sounding gay than this interview suggests. It looks like he at least interviews a bunch of people who are comfortable with their own gay voices.
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Re: Sound Production and Accents: Podcast on "Do I Sound Gay?"
There's also a Lexicon Valley episode about this interesting phenomenon: What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?.
Unlike the Fresh Air episode, the Lexicon Valley episode discusses scientific studies about this topic.
Unlike the Fresh Air episode, the Lexicon Valley episode discusses scientific studies about this topic.
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Re: Sound Production and Accents: Podcast on "Do I Sound Gay?"
Doitsujin wrote:There's also a Lexicon Valley episode about this interesting phenomenon: What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?.
Unlike the Fresh Air episode, the Lexicon Valley episode discusses scientific studies about this topic.
Thanks - I also liked the start of that podcast on number production.
Interesting podcast - both podcasts conclude that sometimes there is a sexual orientation representation in spoken language.
The researcher's corpus can be found here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~munso005/#sociophonetics
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