Van Borsel John, De Maesschalck Dorothy
Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2008 Sep;22(9):679-85. doi: 10.1080/02699200801976695.
For clinicians treating transsexual clients it is important to address primarily those characteristics whose modification is most relevant to the creation of the desired gender presentation. The present study investigated the extent to which a modification of speech rate is warranted in male-to-female transsexuals. Comparison of speech rate measured in 100 non-transsexual males, 100 non-transsexual females, and 28 individuals with a confirmed diagnosis of male-to-female gender dysphoria showed no significant differences. This result suggests that a modification of overall speech rate in male-to-female transsexuals is not really indicated but does not exclude that speech rate in males and females is perceived differently by listeners or that gender differences exist in temporal aspects of speech at a micro-level.
对于治疗变性者的临床医生而言，首要处理那些与塑造理想的性别表现最为相关的特征非常重要。本研究调查了在男变女变性者中，语速调整的必要性程度。对100名非变性男性、100名非变性女性以及28名确诊为男变女性别焦虑症的个体的语速测量结果进行比较，未发现显著差异。这一结果表明，男变女变性者整体语速的调整并非真正必要，但并不排除听众对男性和女性语速的感知不同，或者在微观层面语音的时间特征上存在性别差异。
