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Acoustic correlates of sexual orientation and gender-role self-concept in women's speech.
- Source :
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [J Acoust Soc Am] 2017 Jun; Vol. 141 (6), pp. 4793. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Compared to studies of male speakers, relatively few studies have investigated acoustic correlates of sexual orientation in women. The present investigation focuses on shedding more light on intra-group variability in lesbians and straight women by using a fine-grained analysis of sexual orientation and collecting data on psychological characteristics (e.g., gender-role self-concept). For a large-scale women's sample (overall n = 108), recordings of spontaneous and read speech were analyzed for median fundamental frequency and acoustic vowel space features. Two studies showed no acoustic differences between lesbians and straight women, but there was evidence of acoustic differences within sexual orientation groups. Intra-group variability in median f0 was found to depend on the exclusivity of sexual orientation; F1 and F2 in /iː/ (study 1) and median f0 (study 2) were acoustic correlates of gender-role self-concept, at least for lesbians. Other psychological characteristics (e.g., sexual orientation of female friends) were also reflected in lesbians' speech. Findings suggest that acoustic features indexicalizing sexual orientation can only be successfully interpreted in combination with a fine-grained analysis of psychological characteristics.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Female
Heterosexuality classification
Humans
Phonetics
Sex Factors
Sexual and Gender Minorities classification
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Young Adult
Acoustics
Gender Identity
Heterosexuality psychology
Homosexuality, Female psychology
Self Concept
Sexual and Gender Minorities psychology
Speech Acoustics
Speech Production Measurement methods
Voice Quality
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1520-8524
- Volume :
- 141
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28679252
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4988684