Purpose The aim of this study was to provide a systematic review of the aspects of verbal
communication contributing to listener perceptions of speaker gender with a view to …

Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the
grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing …

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully
updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be …

Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

The aim of this chapter is to outline a theory of the voice that relates specific vocal fold
articulations to acoustic parameters that are perceptible to listeners. The “voice” here is …

Praat is a wonderful software package written and maintained by Paul Boersma and David
Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. Available for free, with open source code, there is …

Although much is known about the linguistic function of vowel nasality, whether contrastive
(as in French) or coarticulatory (as in English), and much effort has gone into identifying …

Many studies have been conducted on acoustic differences between female and male
speech. However, they have generally been led on speakers of only one language, and …

This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking
questions (ISQs) in German for two question types—polar questions and constituent …

Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five
different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the …