The notion that an individual's sexual orientation can be ascertained through distinctive
speech patterns abounds in popular culture. This article reviews the small but growing body …

Three experiments examined acoustic and perceptual characteristics of the speech of gay;
Lesbian; Bisexual (GLB) and heterosexual people. Experiment 1 examined the acoustic …

Sociophonetic inquiry into sexuality and the voice has often focused on the perception of
men's sexuality on the basis of disembodied voices. However, inconsistencies across these …

Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions and their boundaries are
generally fuzzy and ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential weighting to …

In this study, we explore whether Zoom is a viable method for collecting data for
sociophonetic research, focusing on vocalic analysis. We investigate whether recordings …

This dissertation is based on a long-term ethnographic and sociophonetic study of 15
transgender people on the female-to-male (or transmasculine) identity spectrum. The focus …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent lesbian women
demonstrate pitch and pitch variation that is different from that of heterosexual women. Study …

The social category of gender is often considered binary in linguistic research, but this
division glosses over the myriad identities within the broad categories of'masculine'and' …

There has been a consistent interest in how people perform gender vocally. An under-
utilized source of insight into the vocal presentation of self can be found in the passing …

This chapter focuses on the diverse range of masculinities, and the multi-faceted perspective
on gender. The ways gendered embodiment interacts with the voice, it is important to keep …