Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project

[Herb Stahlke]

Peter Ladefoged was a self-acknowledged creaker.  His voice would go
creaky regularly at the end of an utterance.   Creaky voice has
nothing to do with the epiglottis.  It involves compressed vocal folds
with reduced air flow and a reduced ptich frequency.  There are a
couple of Facebook videos of creaky voice and a slightly off-the-wall
comment on the Supernote Controversy, which I was happily unaware of.
The video includes a brief waveform showing modal voicing followed by
creaky voicing.

Herb

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Women's creaky voice is an interesting phenomenon.  I wonder which celebrit=
> ies are the creakiest.  I remember that Senator McCain's daughter Meghan se=
> emed particularly creaky. She's from Phoenix.
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> What makes the creaky sound anyway?  Epiglottis?
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> I would think that if listeners would rate voices on a social scale=2C they=
> 'd say the creakiness is higher than non-crrekiness.
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+=20
> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> Date: Thu=2C 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:
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>> My name is Ikuko Patricia Yuasa.I am currently a visiting scholar at UC
>> Berkeley=2C preparing grant proposals for research grants such as the
>> National Endowment for Humanities Grants.
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>> I am looking for 2 or 3 people who would be interested in being paid to b=
> e
>> 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.
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>> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/3/315
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>> I was encouraged by the reviewers of this publication to pursue further
>> investigation into this phenomenon by American women. Also=2C 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)=2C South
>> Atlantic=2C and North Atlantic.Their responsibilities are:
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>> #1. Assigning approximately 100 (native American English speaker) student=
> s
>> 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.
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>> #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.
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>> #3. Assistance in locating a room where I can record 10 to 15 min.
>> conversations by these informants.
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>> 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=2C their burden should be minimized. The monetary compensation t=
> hat
>> 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:
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>> $50=2C400/12 months
>> ***
>> $6=2C000 ($1000 x 6 months): 1 research assistantship
>> $15=2C000 ($5=2C000 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=2C800: primary investigator's research leave
>> ***Total: $50=2C400
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>> Please let me know if you are interested in becoming a research
>> collaborator of this project.
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>> Regards=2C
>> Ikuko Patricia Yuasa=2C Ph.D.
>> Visiting Scholar
>> Center for Japanese Studies
>> University of California=2C Berkeley
>> 2223 Fulton Street Room 500 #2318
>> Berkeley=2C CA 94720-2318
>> ipyuasa at berkeley.edu/ipyuasa at cal.berkeley.edu
>> 510.642.3156
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