12.2304, Sum: Phonetic Differences/Male & Female Speech

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Date:  Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:48:49 -0400
From:  Henry Rogers <rogers at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  male-female bibliography

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Date:  Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:48:49 -0400
From:  Henry Rogers <rogers at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  male-female bibliography

Re: Linguist 12.2276

This is a posting of the bibliographic items that I have received on the
subject of male-female phonetic differences.

Many thanks to those who replied: Doug Whalen, Jamil Daher, Baider
Fabienne, Robert Hagiwara, Laura L. Koenig, Nadia Brunetti, Anne Cutler,
David Deterding, Daniel Loehr, Matthew Gordon.

Hank Rogers

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        Male-Female Phonetic Bibliography


Atkinson, M. 1984. Our Masters' voices; The Language and Body Language
of Politics. London: Methuen

Bladon, R. A. W., Henton, C. G., & Pickering, J. B. 1984. Towards an
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4(1), 59-69.

Brend, R.M. 1975.  "Male-female intonation patterns in American
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and Dominance. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.  pp. 84-87

Brown, W. S., jr. and S.H. Feinstein. 1977. 'Speaker sex identification
utilizing a constant laryngeal source'. Folia phoniatrica 29.240-8.

Byrd, D. 1994. Relations of sex and dialect to reduction. Speech
Communication, 15(1), 39-54.

Carleton, M. & Ohala, J.J. 1980. "The effect of pitch of voice on
perceived personality traits". Meeting of Kroeber Anthropological
Society, Berkeley: University of California.

Chambers, J. K. 1992. Linguistic correlates of gender and sex. English
World-Wide, 13(2), 173-218.

Childers, D.G. and K. Wu. 1991. Gender recogniton from speech: Part II.
Fine analysis' JASA 90.1841-56.

Coleman, Ralph O. 1971. 'Male and female voice quality and its
relationship to vowel formant frequencies'. JSHR 14.565-77.

Coleman, Ralph O. 1973. 'Speaker identification in the absence of
inter-subject differences in glottal source charactersistics'. JASA
53.1741-3.

Coleman, Ralph O. 1976. 'A comparison of the contributions of two voice
quality characteristics to the perception of maleness and femaleness in
the voice'. JSHR 19.168-80.

Deterding D 1990. Speaker Normalisation for Automatic Speech
Recognition. Unpublished PhD thesis, Cambridge University.

Deterding, D. 1997 The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard
Southern British English Pronunciation. Journal of the International
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Eckert, P. 1989. The whole woman: Sex and gender differences in
variation. Language Variation and Change, 1, 245-267.

Ecklund, Ingegerd and Hartmut Traunmüller. 1997. 'Comparative study of
male and female whispered and phonated versions of the long vowels of
Swedish'. Phonetica 54.1-21.

Gibb, G. D. 1869. "The character of the voice in the nations of Asia and
Africa contrasted with that of the nations of Europe". Journal of the
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Gordon, Matthew and Jeffrey Heath. 1998. 'Sex, Sound Symbolism, and
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Graddol, D. & Swann, J 2d ed, 1991. The Voice of Authority.  Oxford:
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Graddol, D. & Swann, J. 1991. Gender Voices. "The Voice of Authority"
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Graddol, D. J. 1983. "Three experiments in the perception of speaking
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Graddol, D. J. 1986. "Discourse specific pitch behavior" in John-Lewis,
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Hagiwara, R. 1995. Acoustic realizations of American /r/ as produced by
women and men. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 90.

Hagiwara, R. 1997. Dialect variation and formant frequency: the American
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18-21,28.

Henton, C. 1989.  "Fact and fiction in the description of female and
male pitch".  Language and Communication 9:299-311

Henton, C. 1990. One vowel's life (and death?) across languages: the
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Henton, C. 1992. The abnormality of male speech. In G. Wolf (Ed.), New
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Henton, C. 1995.  "Pitch Dynamism in Male and Female Speech".  Language
and Communication 15:43-61

Henton, C. G., & Bladon, R. A. W. 1985. Breathiness in normal female
speech: inefficiency versus desirability. Language and Communication,
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Henton, C., & Bladon, A. 1988. Creak as a sociophonetic marker. In L. M.
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