When a bilingual switches languages, do they switch their voice? Using a conversational
corpus of speech from early Cantonese-English bilinguals (n= 34), this paper examines the …

The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether a high
degree of variability in pitch may be considered a characteristic, endonormative feature of …

It is well established that early bilinguals who speak languages that differ in the phonetic
implementation of the voicing contrast have language-specific voicing systems. This study …

Research on ethnic varieties of American English has found that listeners can identify
speaker ethnicity from voice alone at above-chance rates. This study aims to extend this …

Differences in language use between men and women have been studied intensely. We
take stock of the findings and venture into less charted territory. First, we broaden the scope …

Past studies have shown that boys and girls sound distinct by 4 years old, long before
sexual dimorphisms in vocal anatomy develop. These gender differences are thought to be …

Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch
patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the …

When a bilingual switches languages, do they switch their “voice”? Using a new
conversational corpus of speech from early Cantonese-English bilinguals (N= 34), this …

Objectives Increased cognitive load has been observed to correlate with decreased vocal
fold perturbation, reduced additive noise, increased periodicity, and a higher rate of vocal …

Language communicators use acoustic-phonetic cues to convey a variety of social
information in the spoken language, and the learning of a second language affects speech …