Re: creaky voice

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Thanks--I obviously missed the earlier discussion. Toclarify my earlier
comments: folks in the North Carolina Language and Life Project have been reporting
creaky voice among NC African-American males as a way of asserting
masculinity (as I remember the paper). Also, Norma Mendoza-Denton has been studying
creaky voice as a feature of the speech of young Hispanic females in the US
Southwest.


In a message dated 2/18/06 12:05:47 PM, bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU writes:


> On 2/18/06, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 2/18/06 2:27:03 AM, mckernan at LOCALNET.COM writes:
> >
> > > >Jacobellis is from Stratton, Vt., FWIW. But I'd guess creaky voice is
> > > >common among female snowboarders regardless of regional background.
> >
> > Can you explain what the scientific basis is for assigning this feature
> (a)
> > to females and (b) to snowboarding females?
> >
> > I have seen some evidence that creakky voice is a feature of young males,
> > particularly when they are trying to impress females with their virility.
>
> Well, (a) actually does have a basis in various dialectological
> studies, as was discussed here last year:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505D&L=ADS-L&P=R1779
>
> As for (b), that was based on hearing Jacobellis and other female
> snowboarders (Hannah Teter, Gretchen Bleiler, Kelly Clark, Michelle
> Gorgone) interviewed for the Olympics. You can find interview clips
> with them via the NBC link I gave:
>
> http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html
> (choose "snowboarding", then choose "off the show")
>
> Jacobellis is particularly creaky, though.
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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