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Name:	Lal  Zimman (IPA: lɑl 'zɪmņ)
Institution:	University of Colorado at Boulder
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Homepage:	http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~zimman
State and/or Country:	CA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Sociolinguistics
Specialty:	Sociophonetics; Language, Gender & Sexuality
Subject Language(s):	English
Selected Publications:	• Booknote on 'Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch: A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans,' Ikuko Patricia Yuasa (forthcoming). • 'Female-to-male transsexuals and gay-sounding voices: A pilot study.' • 'Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals' (extended abstract). • 'Language, embodiment, and the 'third sex.' • 'The other kind of coming out': Transgender people and the coming out narrative genre. • Review of 'Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts,' Judith Baxter, ed. Work in progress: • 'Trans men and gay-sounding voices: The necessity of gender, sexuality, identity, and socialization.' • 'Queerest of the queer? Retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality.' • 'The discursive construction of sex: Talk about embodiment among transsexual men.'
Courses Taught:	Language in U.S. Society Language and Gender Language and Culture World Language Policies Linguistics Service Learning Program in Literacy
Dissertation Abstract:	Voices in Transition: Testosterone, Transmasculinity, and the Gendered Voice among Female-to-Male Transgender People
Reviewer of:	Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (LL Issue 22.1330)
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