" 'Vocal Fry' Creeping into U.S. Speech"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ron Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> this phenomemon has been the subject of a good deal of scholarly discussion
> for at least five years. If any participant in this thread is a member of the American
> Dialect Society, he or she will have noticed this, I believe, in AMERICAN SPEECH,
> the journal of the Society.

See also today's Language Log post from Mark Liberman ("these 'low
creaky vibrations' have been common since forever"):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626

--bgz

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