Publication Date
3-15-2023
Publication Name
JASA Express Letters
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Speech acoustics research typically assumes speakers are men or women with speech characteristics associated with these two gender categories. Less work has assessed acoustic-phonetic characteristics of non-binary speakers. This study examined acoustic-phonetic features across adult cisgender (15 men and 15 women) and subgroups of transgender (15 nonbinary, 7 transgender men, and 7 transgender women) speakers and relations among these features and perceptual ratings of gender identity and masculinity/femininity. Differing acoustic-phonetic features were predictive of confidence in speaker gender and masculinity/femininity across cisgender and transgender speakers. Non-binary speakers were perceptually rated within an intermediate range of cisgender women and all other groups.
Volume
3
Issue
3
First Page
035206-1
Last Page
035206-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017642
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Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Commons, Phonetics and Phonology Commons
Comments
This is an open access article published in JASA Express Letters.