Soundg gay, punk, or jock: What your language says about your social inty

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People tell me I sound gay. And I totally do.

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SOUNDG GAY, PUNK, OR JOCK: WHAT LANGUAGE SAYS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL GROUP

Qutns on nasaly, "nasaly", and gay-soundg voic. I was watchg David Thorpe's documentary "Do I sound gay? " on Netflix the other day and I was stck by how gay-soundg speech was scribed as beg "nasal".

Context: narrator has been askg people "Do I sound gay? And so many other gay men sound credibly nasal, and, like, I thk 's one reason people fd too many gay voic at once kd of gratg bee of that nasaly. And general I don't thk of nasaly as beg a stereotype of gay-soundg speech, so much as I associate wh nerds or Whe speech (See discsn Bucholtz 2011, Rahman 2007, Fought 2006).

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Soundg gay, punk, or jock: What your language says about your social inty.

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