LINGUIST List 12.2276

Mon Sep 17 2001

Qs: Gender Differences/Speech, Trills & Accents

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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

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,

 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