on personal identity and phonetics
Jun. 27th, 2011 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslWhen I met lingboy about a month ago, he told me about the acoustic properties of the female voice, that it had more harmonics or something.
A google search didn't find what I was looking for, namely what is the lovely property about female voices and how much of it is due to biological differences? However, I found other fascinating things:
* Sally McConnell-Ginet's work on gay speech, teenage girl speech.
...which tangentially led me to:
* Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self: "we are only our selves insofar as we move in a certain space of questions, as we seek and find an orientation to the good (p. 34)."
I wonder how other self-identification might cause changes in speech... e.g. if you remind the subject of their gender/ethnicity/sexual orientation/profession/age at the beginning of the experiment, does their speech become more marked? If you put people at ease, does the effect go away? At what point does habit become "second nature"("fake it till you make it")? Can we make a classifier to predict what speech will be perceived as "put on"?
lingboy about a month ago, he told me about the acoustic properties of the female voice, that it had more harmonics or something.A google search didn't find what I was looking for, namely what is the lovely property about female voices and how much of it is due to biological differences? However, I found other fascinating things:
* Sally McConnell-Ginet's work on gay speech, teenage girl speech.
...which tangentially led me to:
* Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self: "we are only our selves insofar as we move in a certain space of questions, as we seek and find an orientation to the good (p. 34)."
I wonder how other self-identification might cause changes in speech... e.g. if you remind the subject of their gender/ethnicity/sexual orientation/profession/age at the beginning of the experiment, does their speech become more marked? If you put people at ease, does the effect go away? At what point does habit become "second nature"("fake it till you make it")? Can we make a classifier to predict what speech will be perceived as "put on"?