ArticleRoyal Society open science2019
Children can control the expression of masculinity and femininity through the voice.
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- Horses cross-modally recognize women and men.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Visual biases in evaluation of speakers' and singers' voice type by cis and trans listeners.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Individual Differences in the Development of Gendered Speech in Preschool Children: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Peer audience effects on children's vocal masculinity and femininity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Static and dynamic formant scaling conveys body size and aggression.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Singers show enhanced performance and neural representation of vocal imitation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- "This Is What a Mechanic Sounds Like": Children's Vocal Control Reveals Implicit Occupational Stereotypes.Psychological science · 2020Article
- Development of voice perception is dissociated across gender cues in school-age children.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Pre-pubertal boys and girls speak with acoustically different voices despite the absence of a clear anatomical dimorphism in the vocal apparatus, suggesting that a strong component of the expression of gender through the voice is behavioural. Initial evidence for this hypothesis was found in a previous study showing that children can alter their voice to sound like a boy or like a girl. However, whether they can spontaneously modulate these voice components within their own gender in order to vary the expression of their masculinity and femininity remained to be investigated. Here, seventy-two English-speaking children aged 6-10 were asked to give voice to child characters varying in masculine and feminine stereotypicality to investigate whether primary school children spontaneously adjust their sex-related cues in the voice-fundamental frequency (
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