Whiteside S P
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield.
Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Apr;86(2):579-84. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.2.579.
An experiment was carried out to test whether three phonetically naive listeners were able to identify a speaker's sex from brief natural vowel segments. All speech segments presented to the listeners were extracted from sentences spoken by members of a group of three women and three men with a British General Northern accent. Analysis showed that listeners were able to identify the speaker's sex from the vowel segments with high accuracy (a mean score of 98.9%, p < .001). Acoustic analyses were subsequently carried out to quantify the acoustic and phonetic differences related to the sex of the speakers. Fundamental frequencies and format frequencies of the vowel stimuli were investigated. The men generally had lower values of both than the women.
进行了一项实验，以测试三名对语音不熟悉的听众是否能够从简短的自然元音片段中识别出说话者的性别。呈现给听众的所有语音片段均从一组三名女性和三名男性所说的句子中提取，这些人带有英国北部通用口音。分析表明，听众能够以很高的准确率从元音片段中识别出说话者的性别（平均得分98.9%，p <.001）。随后进行了声学分析，以量化与说话者性别相关的声学和语音差异。研究了元音刺激的基频和共振峰频率。男性的这两个值通常都比女性低。
