Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project

[Tom Zurinskas]

Women's creaky voice is an interesting phenomenon.  I wonder which celebrities are the creakiest.  I remember that Senator McCain's daughter Meghan seemed particularly creaky. She's from Phoenix.
 
What makes the creaky sound anyway?  Epiglottis?
 
I would think that if listeners would rate voices on a social scale, they'd say the creakiness is higher than non-crrekiness.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
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> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:35:34 -0800
> From: ipyuasa at BERKELEY.EDU
> Subject: Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project
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> Poster: Ikuko Patricia Yuasa <ipyuasa at BERKELEY.EDU>
> Subject: Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project
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> Dear colleagues:
> 
> 
> My name is Ikuko Patricia Yuasa.I am currently a visiting scholar at UC
> Berkeley, preparing grant proposals for research grants such as the
> National Endowment for Humanities Grants.
> 
> I am looking for 2 or 3 people who would be interested in being paid to be
> part of my current research project proposal. My preliminary research on
> socio-cultural usage of American women's creaky voice was recently
> published in American Speech by the American Dialect Society.
> 
> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/3/315
> 
> I was encouraged by the reviewers of this publication to pursue further
> investigation into this phenomenon by American women. Also, this
> preliminary research result may appear in Time Magazine in 2011 as it has
> recently caught the attention of of the magazine's reporter. I am
> looking for those who teach college students in three American dialect
> regions of Mountains (states located near Rocky Mountains), South
> Atlantic, and North Atlantic.Their responsibilities are:
> 
> #1. Assigning approximately 100 (native American English speaker) students
> to participate in a speech perception survey as part of their coursework
> of the courses that the collaborators teach during the spring (preferable)
> or/and fall semester of 2012.
> 
> #2. Assistance in recruiting 40 paid (native bilingual American English
> speaker) informants (20 males and 20 females) by making announcements in
> the collaborators' courses during the spring (preferable) or/and fall
> semester of 2012.
> 
> #3. Assistance in locating a room where I can record 10 to 15 min.
> conversations by these informants.
> 
> I am budgeting a research assistant in linguistics department at UC
> Berkeley. If the collaborating researchers allow the research assistant
> and I to directly communicate with the students participating in the
> research, their burden should be minimized. The monetary compensation that
> I allocated for collaborating researchers is $5000 each. Please see the
> itemized based on the number used for this year's grant for the National
> Endowment for Humanities below:
> 
> $50,400/12 months
> ***
> $6,000 ($1000 x 6 months): 1 research assistantship
> $15,000 ($5,000 x 3): 3 collaborating researchers
> $6000 ($2000 x 3): traveling to 3 collaborating research sites
> $2400 ($20 x 40 informants x 3 research sites): payments
> $200 ($100 x 2 digital recorders): digital recorders
> $20,800: primary investigator's research leave
> ***Total: $50,400
> 
> Please let me know if you are interested in becoming a research
> collaborator of this project.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ikuko Patricia Yuasa, Ph.D.
> Visiting Scholar
> Center for Japanese Studies
> University of California, Berkeley
> 2223 Fulton Street Room 500 #2318
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
> ipyuasa at berkeley.edu/ipyuasa at cal.berkeley.edu
> 510.642.3156
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