The study of gay male speech has largely foced on fundamental equency and var quantifiable aspects of /s/ (Campbell-Kibler 2012, Mack and Munson 2012, Munson 2007, Zimman 2013). In a study of the speech of three gay men om California, however, Posva (2011) nclus that gay men may utilize salient aspects of regnal dialects to exprs their gayns. The stylistic rrelatn between gayns and certa regnal dialects supports Eckert’s (2008) argument that lguistic styl are centered around iologi, rather than rigid tegoril inti and Posva (2011) urg that this phenomenon be studied further. Southern New Hampshire provis an ial landspe to further this study, as the regn and s dialect have unrgone signifint lguistic and iologil chang recent s (Stanford et al 2012, Nagy 2001). The current work exam the lguistic relatnship between gayns and Southern New Hampshire iologi the speech of two 22-year-old gay men who grew up Rockgham County, New Hampshire. I then quantatively analyzed the speakers’ e and/or avoidance of phoic variabl (cludg var vowels and quali of /s/) that have been shown to be perceptually and/or productively salient gay male speech or regnal dialectology Southern New Hampshire. The analysis found two signifint fdgs. The first was that the speakers’ /s/ was signifintly “gayer soundg” the readg task than the terview and when talkg about beg gay than not, showg an iologil lk (at least for the speakers) between “gay soundg” speech and “proper” speech the readg tasks. The send was that both speakers monstrated a signifintly unmerged LOT/THOUGHT, which is a salient feature of the New York Cy dialect and superses Southern New Hampshire dialect norms. Both monstrate that social inty is a plex and multi-layered phenomenon.
Contents:
- GAY MALE SPEECH
- IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
- SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN
- THE GAY VOICE
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
- OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE
- GAY LISP
- HOMOSEXUáLNí MUžSKá řEč - GAY MALE SPEECH
- JAGS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE NFL COACH TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY
GAY MALE SPEECH
Particularly wh North Amerin English, Historilly, gay male speech characteristics have been highly stigmatized and their age may be sometim d to a limed number of settgs outsi of the workplace or other public spac. Rearch do not support the notn that gay speech entirely adopts feme speech characteristics — rather, that selectively adopts some of those featur. One particularly relevant feature is sometim known as the gay lisp, though rearchers nfirm that is not technilly a lisp. There are siari between gay male speech and the speech of other members wh the LGBTQ+ muny. Featur of lbian speech have also been nfirmed the 21st century, though they are far ls socially noticed than featur of gay male speech. Drag queen speech is a further topic of rearch and, while some drag queens may also intify as gay men, a scriptn of their speech styl may not be so bary . Like wh other margalized muni, speech s n be eply tied to lol, timate muni and/or subcultur. * gay male speech wikipedia *
Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSParticularly wh North Amerin English, [catn need] gay male speech has been the foc of numero morn stereotyp, as well as soclguistic studi. Scientific rearch has unvered phoilly signifint featur produced by many gay men and monstrated that listeners accurately gus speakers' sexual orientatn at rat greater than chance.
[1] Historilly, gay male speech characteristics have been highly stigmatized and their age may be sometim d to a limed number of settgs outsi of the workplace or other public spac. Rearch do not support the notn that gay speech entirely adopts feme speech characteristics — rather, that selectively adopts some of those featur. [2] Gay speech characteristics appear to be learned (rather than nate) ways of speakg, like many aspects of language, though their origs and procs of adoptn by men rema unclear.
IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
Michael Schulman on “Do I Sound Gay?,” a documentary by David Thorpe that explor how vol nc are associated wh sexualy. * gay male speech wikipedia *
Featur of lbian speech have also been nfirmed the 21st century, though they are far ls socially noticed than featur of gay male speech. Drag queen speech is a further topic of rearch and, while some drag queens may also intify as gay men, a scriptn of their speech styl may not be so bary (gay vers straight).
Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much. He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg. Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn.
Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers). “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe.
SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN
* gay male speech wikipedia *
As gays and lbians ga cultural pal, helped along by equaly victori like the one jt hand down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too. The study of gay male speech has largely foced on fundamental equency and var quantifiable aspects of /s/ (Campbell-Kibler 2012, Mack and Munson 2012, Munson 2007, Zimman 2013). In a study of the speech of three gay men om California, however, Posva (2011) nclus that gay men may utilize salient aspects of regnal dialects to exprs their gayns.
The stylistic rrelatn between gayns and certa regnal dialects supports Eckert’s (2008) argument that lguistic styl are centered around iologi, rather than rigid tegoril inti and Posva (2011) urg that this phenomenon be studied further.
The current work exam the lguistic relatnship between gayns and Southern New Hampshire iologi the speech of two 22-year-old gay men who grew up Rockgham County, New Hampshire.
THE GAY VOICE
Abstract. Although a notable body of work has emerged scribg gay male speech (GMS), s overlap wh Ain Amerin language (AAL) remas paratively u * gay male speech wikipedia *
I then quantatively analyzed the speakers’ e and/or avoidance of phoic variabl (cludg var vowels and quali of /s/) that have been shown to be perceptually and/or productively salient gay male speech or regnal dialectology Southern New Hampshire.
The first was that the speakers’ /s/ was signifintly “gayer soundg” the readg task than the terview and when talkg about beg gay than not, showg an iologil lk (at least for the speakers) between “gay soundg” speech and “proper” speech the readg tasks. Regardg atic featur of speech, rearchers have hypothized a femizatn of such characteristics homosexual men, but prev vtigatns have so far produced mixed rults. To fill the gaps, we explored potential differenc atic featur of speech between homosexual and heterosexual native French men and vtigated whether the former showed a trend toward femizatn by parg theirs to that of heterosexual native French women.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
What the way we talk says about gay pri and lgerg prejudice * gay male speech wikipedia *
Rults showed that homosexual men displayed signifintly higher pch modulatn patterns and ls breathy voic pared to heterosexual men, wh valu shifted toward those of heterosexual women. Distributns’ histograms of heterosexual women and homosexual and heterosexual men puted om the ordat of the first lear discrimant functn.
Corneli, Brianna R., 'Gay (Whe) Male Speech and the E(race)sure of Inty', Kira Hall, and Rty Barrett (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexualy (onle edn, Oxford Amic, 10 July 2018),, accsed 28 July 2023.
OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE
Rudolf P. Gd, Soundg Gay: Pch Properti the Speech of Gay and Straight Men, Amerin Speech, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Sprg, 1994), pp. 30-57 * gay male speech wikipedia *
Although a notable body of work has emerged scribg gay male speech (GMS), s overlap wh Ain Amerin language (AAL) remas paratively unrstudied. Examg the importance of racial inty, particularly Blackns, to the nstctn of gay inty the Uned Stat, the chapter vtigat the treatment of GMS as whe by flt, wh the voic of gay men of lor nsired addive.
Inty bate language and sexualy studi ntributed to an unrstandg of gay inty as muny-based practice, thereby layg a necsary amework for the study of GMS.
Although efforts to brg a muny-based unrstandg to gay inty have been groundbreakg, the lack of nsiratn of tersectnaly has erased ntributns to GMS om racially based language varieti, such as AAL. After intifyg phoic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their bt hunch is that some gay men may subnscly adopt certa female speech patterns.
GAY LISP
In 'Do I Sound Gay?', David Thorpe exam the myster orig of the "gay voice" while tryg—and failg—to rid himself of his own gayish flectn * gay male speech wikipedia *
They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic.
HOMOSEXUáLNí MUžSKá řEč - GAY MALE SPEECH
Greg Jabs, Lbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Cril Review of the Lerature, Amerin Speech, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Sprg, 1996), pp. 49-71 * gay male speech wikipedia *
” It’s a fascatg and nuanced film, which the filmmaker, David Thorpe, his feelgs about his voice to look at attus toward homosexualy. It rais a plited discsn about gay pri, lgerg homophobia, disguised misogyny, and the extent to which we all alter the image that we prent to the the film begs, Thorpe is disturbed bee he realiz he don’t like his voice any more. He rri out thoughtful nversatns wh his iends and proment gay and lbian figur – cludg Gee Takei, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, Margaret Cho and Don Lemon – about what means to “sound gay.
But so dog, v everyone to thk about what their own voice says about who they are, where they me om, and where they want to science of “the gay voice”To start wh, the stereotypil “gay voice” isn’t necsarily a study published 2003, Ron Smyth, a lguist at the Universy of Toronto, found that participants readily separated rerdgs of 25 diverse voic to those who “sound gay” and those who “sound straight.
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In Smyth's study, people rrectly gused a man’s sexualy about 60 percent of the time, only a ltle better than another small study at the Universy of Hawaii, both gay and straight listeners were equally as likely to misclassify people as gay or straight. In fact, the straight men wh so-lled gay voic weren't aware that people thought they sound gay at turns out that what most people perceive as a stereotypil "gay voice" is jt a male voice that sounds more stereotypilly feme -- maly, higher pched and more melod. And that often has more to do wh the voic that a person intified wh as they grew up, rather than and other rearchers say some men, both gay and straight, velop more feme voic bee they are fluenced by women when they are young.