There is a substantial body of literature showing that men and women speak differently and
that these differences are endemic to the speech signal. However, the psycholinguistic …

Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally
impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language (s) they …

Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic
aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in …

Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech
processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations …

Research on the acoustic correlates of sounding gay has underexamined the role of
regional accent features like vowel quality. This article explores the potential connection …

Previous studies have shown that a subset of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) and
heterosexual adults produce distinctive patterns of phonetic variation that allow listeners to …

Two experiments examined whether listeners associate frontally normal and
misarticulated/s/with gay-sounding voices, as is suggested by the popular culture stereotype …

The notion that an individual's sexual orientation can be ascertained through distinctive
speech patterns abounds in popular culture. This article reviews the small but growing body …

This article discusses 4 types of phonological knowledge: knowledge of the acoustic and
perceptual characteristics of speech sounds (perceptual knowledge), knowledge of the …

This study investigates a possible relationship between perceived and self-ascribed gender
identity and the respective acoustic correlates in a group of young heterosexual adult …