Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men

Gaudio, Rudolf P.

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“…As described above, this work has found that perceptions of femininity and gayness in men are often highly correlated, such that men who are perceived as sounding more 'feminine' are normally also perceived as sounding more 'gay' (e.g. Gaudio 1994;Munson et al 2006;Levon 2006Levon , 2007CampbellKibler 2011). In terms of a link between gender/sexuality and social class, research in history and sociology has argued that both effeminacy and gayness in men are normatively associated with higher social-class positions, particularly in Britain (Mosse 1985;Keogh, Dodds, & Henderson 1994;Connell 1995Connell , 2000.…”

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“…In his germinal sociophonetic study of the topic, for example, Gaudio (1994) elicited listeners' judgments of the perceived masculinity and the perceived gayness of eight male speakers, four of whom self-identified as 'gay' and four of whom did not. Gaudio found a strong negative correlation between listeners' judgments of the men's masculinity and their gayness, such that more masculine-sounding men were also heard as less gay-sounding (and vice versa).…”

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“…7 After hearing each recording, respondents rated the speaker on a series of eight six-point Likert scales (see Appendix B). These scales were designed to elicit listener judgments of various standard characteristics, such as speakers' perceived competence (intelligent/not intelligent, educated/not educated) and likeability (dependable/not dependable, hardworking/ lazy, sincere/dishonest, friendly/not friendly) as well as their perceived gender (masculine/not masculine) and sexuality (gay/not gay) (Scherer 1972;Gaudio 1994). 8 After having rated all three speakers, respondents provided basic demographic information about themselves and completed a short Male Role Attitudes Survey (MRAS; Pleck, Sonenstein, & Ku 1993.…”

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Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

Levon¹

2014

Lang. Soc.

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A B S T R A C TThis article examines how social stereotypes influence listeners' perceptions of indexical language. Building on recent developments in linguistics and social psychology, I investigate the extent to which stereotypical attitudes and beliefs about categories of speakers serve to enable the association of linguistic features with particular social meanings while simultaneously blocking others. My arguments are based on an analysis of listener perceptions of the intersecting categories of gender, sexuality, and social class among men in the UK. Using a modified matched-guise paradigm to test three category-relevant variables (mean pitch, spectral characteristics of /s/, and TH-fronting), I demonstrate how the perception of social meaning is governed by a combination of both attitudinal and cognitive factors. This finding is important because it illustrates the listener-dependent nature of sociolinguistic perception. Moreover, it also provides further empirical support for an understanding of social meaning as an emergent property of language-in-use. (speech perception, attitudes and stereotypes, sexuality, phonetic variation)*

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Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

Levon¹

2014

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“…In one of these studies, Gaudio (1994) asked naive listeners to rate gay and straight male talkers on a seven-point gay-straight scale using a single-interval task. He found that participants were highly accurate in their judgments across several different reading styles.…”

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Perceptual similarity of regional dialects of American English

Clopper

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Pisoni

2006

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Previous research on the perception of dialect variation has measured the perceptual similarity of talkers based on regional dialect using only indirect methods. In the present study, a paired comparison similarity ratings task was used to obtain direct measures of perceptual similarity. Naive listeners were asked to make explicit judgments about the similarity of a set of talkers based on regional dialect. The talkers represented four regional varieties of American English and both genders. Results revealed an additive effect of gender and dialect on mean similarity ratings and two primary dimensions of perceptual dialect similarity: geography (northern versus southern varieties) and dialect markedness (many versus few characteristic properties). The present findings are consistent with earlier research on the perception of dialect variation, as well as recent speech perception studies which demonstrate the integral role of talker gender in speech perception.

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“…Un second facteur qui peut avoir joué un rôle est que les voix d'hommes aiguës sont souvent stéréotypiquement associées à l'homosexualité (Gaudio, 1994) …”

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Comment étudier l’influence des stéréotypes de genre et de race sur la perception de la parole ?

Arnold¹,

Candea²

2015

Langage Et Société

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RésuméCette étude interroge les méthodes expérimentales traditionnellement utilisées en phonétique pour étudier la perception des attitudes/émotions par la voix. Nous avons voulu étudier l'effet des stéréotypes de genre et de race sur la perception, à travers un protocole basé sur les techniques d'amorçage et du locuteur masqué. Nous avons ainsi testé l'approbation de phrases évaluatives appariées à de courts extraits sonores par deux groupes indépendants de 55 personnes chacun. Chaque phrase contenait un prénom féminin ou masculin, français ou maghrébin pour amorcer les catégories identitaires « femme », « homme », « Français de souche », «d'origine arabe». Les résultats obtenus ne sont pas toujours conformes à ceux des études antérieures menées surtout aux Etats-Unis et laissent penser que les réactions des auditrices/eurs face aux stéréotypes de genre sont moins réfléchies que les réactions face aux stéréotypes raciaux. Les conclusions incitent à mieux prendre en compte l'interaction entre chercheurs et enquêtés lors d'expériences perceptives, et à interpréter avec plus de prudence les résultats produits par des méthodes expérimentales purement quantitatives.Mots clés : sociophonétique, perception, méthodes quantitatives, méthodes mixtes, stéréotypes de genre, stéréotypes de race, études françaises. AbstractThis study questions the validity of experimental methods traditionally used in phonetics. We wanted to investigate the influence of gender and race stereotypes on the perception of attitudes and emotions through voice. Thus we used a method combining priming and matched guise technique to test how two independent groups of 55 subjects responded to evaluative sentences that were presented while they listened to short sound excerpts. Each sentence contained a feminine or masculine, french or maghrebian first

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Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men

Cited by 211 publications

References 17 publications

Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality

Perceptual similarity of regional dialects of American English

Comment étudier l’influence des stéréotypes de genre et de race sur la perception de la parole ?

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