Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project

[Herb Stahlke]

Here's the link to the Facebook video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaW3MVPmfFs


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Poster:       Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project
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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
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> 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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