Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, LIU Post, Long Island University, Brookville, New York.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, LIU Post, Long Island University, Brookville, New York.
J Voice. 2014 Mar;28(2):185-90. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2013.08.011. Epub 2013 Dec 4.
The purpose of this study was to assess possible gender differences in the prevalence of vocal fry in the voices of young male college students. Results were compared with previously published findings derived from a matched sample of female speakers. Thirty-four male college students, native American English speakers, produced speech samples in two speaking conditions: (1) sustained isolated vowel /a/ and (2) reading task. Data analyses included perceptual evaluations by two licensed speech-language pathologists. Results showed that vocal fry was perceived significantly more frequently in sentences than in isolated vowel productions. When vocal fry occurred in sentences, it was detected significantly more often in sentence-final position than in initial- and/or mid-sentence position. Furthermore, the prevalence of vocal fry in sentences was significantly lower for male speakers than has previously been reported for female speakers. Possible physiological and sociolinguistic explanations are discussed.
本研究旨在评估年轻男性大学生的声音中出现声音粗糙的可能性别差异。结果与先前从匹配的女性说话者样本中得出的发现进行了比较。34 名美国英语母语的男性大学生在两种说话条件下产生了语音样本：（1）持续孤立的元音 /a/ 和（2）阅读任务。数据分析包括两名持牌言语语言病理学家的感知评估。结果表明，在句子中比在孤立元音产生中更频繁地感知到声音粗糙。当句子中出现声音粗糙时，它在句末位置比在句首和/或句中位置更频繁地被检测到。此外，与之前报道的女性说话者相比，男性说话者句子中声音粗糙的发生率明显较低。讨论了可能的生理和社会语言学解释。
