Young women and language
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:26 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Today's NYT has an interesting article on young women's influence on language development:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/scien ... terns.html
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:09 pm
by Slava
Nice article, thanks Perry. I'd never heard of vocal fry before. Shouldn't that be some kind of Southern cooking?
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:54 am
by bnjtokyo
I have never heard of "vocal fry" either, but then the article mentioned "creaky voice."
See Ladefoged, "A Course in Phonetics" pg. 128 for a photo of the vocal folds producing creaky voice (also called "laryngealization") together a description of its mechanism of articulation (pg 129). Very interesting.