麻豆影院

The way people pronounce their 鈥渟鈥� sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking play a larger role in the perception of gender than previously thought, according to听Lal Zimman听(PhDLing鈥�12), whose findings are based on his doctoral research in CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 linguistics department.

鈥淚n the past, gender differences in the voice have been understood primarily as a biological difference,鈥� Zimman says. 鈥淚 wanted to look at the potential for other factors, other than how testosterone lowers the voice, that affect how a person鈥檚 voice is perceived.鈥�

Zimman鈥檚 research included recording 15 transgendered men [females transitioning to males] and using software to determine the audio frequency of their 鈥渟鈥� sounds. Zimman then digitally manipulated the voices to pinpoint how low each individual鈥檚 voice needed to be before a group of listeners identified the subject as male.

Zimman found that a voice can still be perceived as male even with a high pitch depending on how the participants pronounced their 鈥渟鈥� sounds.

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