HEARING “GAY”: PROSODY, INTERPRETATION, AND THE AFFECTIVE JUDGMENTS OF MEN'S SPEECH

By Erez Levon. 2006

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men (2013, background): “As research on sexuality and the voice has progressed, authors like Smyth, Jacobs, and Rogers (2003), Munson (2007, Munson et al. 2006), Levon (2006, 2007), and Campbell-Kibler (2007, 2011) have shifted toward a focus on perception over production.”
• Phonation type as a stylistic variable : The use of falsetto in constructing a persona (2007, background): “…of segmental variables in performances of gayness (Crist 1997; Linville 1998; Rogers, Smyth and Jacobs 2000; Podesva, Roberts and Campbell-Kibler 2002; Pierrehumbert, Bent, Munson, Bradlow and Bailey 2004; Munson, McDonald, DeBoe and White 2005; Levon 2006; Munson, Jefferson and McDonald 2006).”
• Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality (2014, unknown): “3 Finally, each of the speaker ’ s mean pitch levels were shifted upward by 20 Hz using the pitch manipulation tool in Praat (cf. Levon 2006).”