Perceived Desirability of Vocal Fry Among Female Speech Communication Disorders Graduate Students

Ligon, Claire; Rountrey, Carrie; Rank, Noopur Vaidya; Hull, Michael; Khidr, Aliaa

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.03.010

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“…The results of Ligon et al (2019) need to be considered separately as they had a different methodological set-up than the other papers. Although their focus was on the perception of vocal fry, they also included other voice qualities that the participants needed to rate (Ligon et al 2019, 805.e23).…”

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Creaky Voice in American English: How Are American Women Who Use Creaky Voice Perceived?

Meier

2023

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Vocal fry is a voice quality that can be found in different varieties of English and is used by many different speakers. Nonetheless, it is considered an emerging female voice quality that impairs their work opportunities. The study of the perception of vocal fry has gained attention in the last few years. However, there is a lack of literature reviews comparing the speech evaluations done for vocal fry. In this article eight papers were compared and evaluated. This article not only demonstrated how important the choice of voice sample, evaluator and methodology is to the outcome of the findings but also references possible consequence the choice of an artificial vocal fry and free speech had on the perception of vocal fry in American English.

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“…A unique study in terms of their methodology was Ligon et al (2019). In this study, the Speech Communication Disorder students were asked to rate 25 adjectives in terms of their desirability on a scale of 1 (desirable) to 3 (undesirable) (Ligon et al 2019, 805.e23).…”

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Creaky Voice in American English: How Are American Women Who Use Creaky Voice Perceived?

Meier

2023

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“…In another study using speech communication disorders students as raters, Ligon, Rountrey, Rank, Hull, and Khidr (2019) concur that negative adjectives can be applied to the voice quality of vocal fry, such as “vain,” “apathetic/disinterested,” “sleepy,” and “bored/unengaged,” but they found that some of their participants also used adjectives like “relaxed/chill,” “sophisticated,” “sexy,” and “cool” to describe creaky voice in female speakers 2 . They speculate that women may use creaky phonation in some social situations “to avoid being called lively and aggressive, too feminine and sweet, or worse yet, insecure/hesitant (p. 14).” This “low activation” connotation of creaky phonation is also seen in Gobl and Ni Chasaide (2003), though in their case the low‐energy words applied to creaky phonation (and other non‐modal phonation like breathy) had both positive and negative valence (e.g., “relaxed,” “intimate,” and “bored”).…”

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“…2 2 A limitation of Ligon et al (2019) is that the participants were not rating actual speech samples, but rather the concept of the voice quality itself, after participating in a training on voice qualities as part of their graduate study. Though even rating voice samples may come with confounds, the Ligon et al method may introduce even more bias if the students had been taught that some voice qualities are pathological or dispreferred among voice professionals. …”

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The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

Davidson

2020

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Creaky phonation (also known as creaky voice, vocal fry, laryngealization, or glottalization) is a voice quality that refers to shortened and thickened vocal folds that vibrate at a low and quasi‐regular fundamental frequency with a long period of damping. Cross‐linguistically, creaky phonation can span either short or long domains. When implemented on individual vowels or consonants (as in Zapotec or Montana Salish), it can signal phonemic contrast with other voice qualities, or it can be an additional acoustic cue to enhance other contrasts, such as tone (as in Mandarin or Cantonese). Another segmental use of creaky phonation in many languages is as a variant of glottal stop. Creaky phonation can also be implemented as a prosodic element that signals the end of a phrase (as in English or Mandarin), or indicates relinquishing a conversational turn (as in Finnish). It can also express meaning in a social interaction, such as irritation (in Vietnamese). Lastly, creaky phonation can be deployed as a sociolinguistic marker to establish identities, convey affect, or distinguish one speech group from another within the same language. In some social circumstances, such as the perception that young women use creaky phonation at greater rates than men do, it can be evaluated negatively by listeners. As creaky phonation can be combined with linguistic elements at various levels and is easily perceptible, it has taken on a remarkable number of roles in our linguistic repertoires. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain

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“…28 People who use creaky voice may be judged more negatively than people who do not use creak. [29][30][31][32] Creaky voice is rated as less natural, and it requires more concentration from the listener than non-creaky voice. It may also negatively impact a listener's rating of a speaker's employability.…”

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Has the Prevalence of Creaky Voice Increased Among Finnish University Students From the 1990′S to the 2010′S?

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Everyday observations indicate that creaky voice has become common in Finland in recent years. Previous studies suggest that this trend is also occurring in other countries. This cross-sectional study investigates the use of creaky voice among Finnish university students from the 1990 0 s to the 2010 0 s. Material was obtained from a sound archive. It consisted of 200 samples from normophonic speakers (95 males, 105 females; mean age 23.7 years, SD 3.3 years, range 19−35 years). Normophonia was checked by two speech therapists in a preliminary perceptual analysis. Thereafter, two voice specialists rated the amount of creak and strain. A scale of 0−4 was used (0 = none, 4 = a lot). The inter-and intrarater reliability for the listening evaluations were satisfactory (for creaky phonation, rho = 0.611, P < 0.001 for interrater reliability and rho = 0.540, P < 0.001 for intrarater reliability; for strain, rho = 0.463, P < 0.001 and rho = 0.697, P < 0.001 for inter-and intrarater reliability, respectively). These results revealed a significant increase in the amount of perceived creak in females (from 1.04, SD 0.69 to 1.55, SD 1.06; P < 0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). In males, no significant change was found. However, the frequency of creaky voice use increased in both genders. No male speakers from the 1990 0 s were rated as using "a lot" of creaky voice, but 2.3% of male speakers from the 2010 0 s received this rating. Male speakers who were rated "quite a lot" increased from 5.9% in the 1990 0 s to 18.1% in the 2010 0 s. Female speakers rated "a lot" increased from 0% to 6%, and female speakers rated "quite a lot" increased from 7% to 25.8% over the studied time periods. Creaky phonation and strain correlated slightly in males (rho = 0.24, P < 0.05) and moderately in females (rho = 0.55, P < 0.001). Age did not correlate with the amount of creaky phonation (rho = 0.005, P > 0.10 for males, rho = -0.011, P > 0.10 for females). It can be concluded that the prevalence of creaky voice has increased among young Finnish speakers, particularly females.

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Perceived Desirability of Vocal Fry Among Female Speech Communication Disorders Graduate Students

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Creaky Voice in American English: How Are American Women Who Use Creaky Voice Perceived?

Creaky Voice in American English: How Are American Women Who Use Creaky Voice Perceived?

The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

Has the Prevalence of Creaky Voice Increased Among Finnish University Students From the 1990′S to the 2010′S?

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