Van Borsel John, De Bruyn Els, Lefebvre Evelien, Sokoloff Anouschka, De Ley Sophia, Baudonck Nele
Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium.
J Commun Disord. 2009 Mar-Apr;42(2):100-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.08.004. Epub 2008 Sep 19.
This study evaluated the stereotype that gay men lisp. Two clinicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populations involved judged randomized audio-recordings of 175 gay males, 100 heterosexual males and 100 heterosexual females for the presence of lisping during reading of a standardized text. In the gay males a significantly higher prevalence of lisping was found than in the heterosexual males and females. Breakdown of the results of the gay participants in two different age groups showed a higher prevalence of lisping in the younger age group than in the older age group. No relation was found between lisping and age of coming-out or lisping and the probability of being gay as assessed by a questionnaire about sexual orientation. The origin of the high prevalence of lisping in gay men needs further investigation.
The readers of this article will able (1) to discuss articulatory behaviour as a possible marker that may distinguish gay from heterosexual men (2) to discuss the prevalence of lisping in gay men.
本研究评估了男同性恋者说话口齿不清的刻板印象。两名不了解研究具体目的及所涉及人群的临床医生，对175名男同性恋者、100名异性恋男性和100名异性恋女性阅读标准化文本时是否口齿不清的随机录音进行了评判。结果发现，男同性恋者中口齿不清的患病率显著高于异性恋男性和女性。对男同性恋参与者按两个不同年龄组进行的结果分析显示，较年轻年龄组的口齿不清患病率高于较年长年龄组。通过一份关于性取向的问卷评估发现，口齿不清与出柜年龄或口齿不清与成为同性恋的可能性之间均无关联。男同性恋者中口齿不清高患病率的成因有待进一步研究。
本文读者将能够（1）讨论发音行为作为可能区分男同性恋者与异性恋男性的一个标志，（2）讨论男同性恋者中口齿不清的患病率。
