LINGUIST List 12.2276

Mon Sep 17 2001

Qs: Gender Differences/Speech, Trills & Accents

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  • Henry Rogers, phonetic differences between men's/women's speech
  • Karen S. Chung, trills and accents

    Message 1: phonetic differences between men's/women's speech

     Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:25:32 -0400
    From: Henry Rogers <rogerschass.utoronto.ca>
    Subject: phonetic differences between men's/women's speech


    I am interested in finding literature on phonetic differences between men's and women's speech. I would be very grateful for appropriate references. I am particularly interested in areas other than pitch although I would appreciate those references as well. I will be happy to post a summary of material that is sent to me.

    Many thanks,

    Hank Rogers

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    Henry Rogers rogerschass.utoronto.ca 6072 Robarts Library http://chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/ Department of Linguistics vox: (416-) 978-1769 University of Toronto fax: (416-) 971-2688 Toronto, Ontario,

    Message 2: trills and accents

     Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 07:55:25 +0800
    From: Karen S. Chung <karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw>
    Subject: trills and accents


    I'm forwarding two questions from a phonetics student who is not subscribed to LINGUIST:

    (1) Are there languages in which the alveolar trill and uvular trill co-occur as separate phonemes?

    (2) Are people who learn a foreign language after puberty necessarily doomed to having a foreign accent due to influence from their mother tongue?

    Please reply to: Mia Shen at jaywalkkyahoo.com.tw I'll ask her to summarize to the list if there are enough replies.

    Thank you!

    Karen S. Chung National Taiwan University karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung