Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic
aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in …

Sexed Texts explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality
and gender, two concepts often discussed separately but, in practice, closely intertwined. It …

While there is a renewed interest in voice user interfaces (VUI) in HCI, little attention has
been paid to the design of VUI voice output beyond intelligibility and naturalness. We draw …

In recent years an increasing number of linguists have criticized sociolinguistic approaches
to style limited to correlations between linguistic variation and pre-defined social categories …

This article illustrates the use of an empirical method for examining the perceptual
identification of gayness in male speakers. It demonstrates how, by digitally manipulating the …

Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick have assembled a dazzling array of the very best work
on language and sexuality, including most (if not all) of the classics as well as a number of …

This article describes a controlled experiment designed to determine what people listen to
specifically when judging a speaker's sexuality. Four experimental stimuli were produced by …

This article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-
modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in …

Sociophonetic research on/s/has revealed that sex, gender identity, sexuality, and regional
identity can significantly structure the variation found in the production and perception of its …

The study of gender in sociolinguistic variation has long concerned the ways linguistic
variables pattern with binary gender identities like male and female, with the implicit …