Latin Literary Lenses on Phoenician Female Speech

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Judith P. Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Female Speech

scholarly journals Effect of Mouth Mask and Face Shield on Speech Spectrum in Slovak Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4829
Author(s):  
Vojtech Chmelík ◽  
Daniel Urbán ◽  
Lukáš Zelem ◽  
Monika Rychtáriková
Keyword(s):  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Suprasternal Notch ◽  
Lombard Effect ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
The Face ◽  
Frequency Components ◽  
Acoustic Filtering ◽  
Filtering Effect

In this paper, with the aim of assessing the deterioration of speech intelligibility caused by a speaker wearing a mask, different face masks (surgical masks, FFP2 mask, homemade textile-based protection and two kinds of plastic shields) are compared in terms of their acoustic filtering effect, measured by placing the mask on an artificial head/mouth simulator. For investigating the additional effects on the speaker’s vocal output, speech was also recorded while people were reading a text when wearing a mask, and without a mask. In order to discriminate between effects of acoustic filtering by the mask and mask-induced effects of vocal output changes, the latter was monitored by measuring vibrations at the suprasternal notch, using an attached accelerometer. It was found that when wearing a mask, people tend to slightly increase their voice level, while when wearing plastic face shield, they reduce their vocal power. Unlike the Lombard effect, no significant change was found in the spectral content. All face mask and face shields attenuate frequencies above 1–2 kHz. In addition, plastic shields also increase frequency components to around 800 Hz, due to resonances occurring between the face and the shield. Finally, special attention was given to the Slavic languages, in particular Slovak, which contain a large variety of sibilants. Male and female speech, as well as texts with and without sibilants, was compared.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF EXPRESSIVE FEMALE SPEECH IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 212-219
Author(s):  
Natalia Petlyuchenko ◽  
Valeria Charnyakova
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Female Speech

scholarly journals On Some Problems of Sex-Oriented Linguistic Behavior in Modern English

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Gohar Harutyunyan ◽  
Ashkhen Mkrtchyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Factor ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
Linguistic Behavior

The article investigates the linguistic expressions of sex as a decisive social factor. An attempt is made to question the topicality of some of the characteristics of female speech elaborated by R. Lakoff which later turned into generally accepted beliefs.

scholarly journals METACOMMUNICATIVE PRAGMATIC MARKERS: GENDER ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Tatiana I. Popova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Women's Speech ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dependent Position ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article deals with the use of metacommunicative pragmatic markers in the gender aspect, taking into account the social roles of the speaker. The research is carried out based on the data of the ORD corpus of Russian Everyday Speech, known as ‘One Speaker’s Day’, which contains transcripts of audio recordings obtained under natural conditions. The subsample includes about 200 thousand words. It features episodes of ‘speaker’s days’ of 15 women and 15 men belonging to three age groups. The informants act in various social roles, opposed by the principle of symmetry/asymmetry. Pragmatic annotation of the material and further discursive analysis have demonstrated that metacommunication is actively used in the speech of the informants, but it is much more common for the women’s speech. The men use markers of this type with specific speech tasks, for example, for a refusal (slushay / u menya net deneg <look / I have no money>); in the women’s speech, the variability of metacommunicative markers is wider but there is no functional diversity. This confirms the observations of linguists, obtained from the material of various languages, that women tend to cooperate and maintain dialogue to a greater extent than men. From the perspective of feminist linguistics, this feature of female speech is directly related to the issues of the women’s dependent position since it reflects their passivity and the habit of yielding. However, more than half of the detected uses belong to the speech of women of the older age group (from 55 years old) who communicate with relatives and friends, while in the younger age group the metacommunicative pragmatic markers become multifunctional and also act in speech as a start marker.

Women Speakers and Interlocutors

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-126
Author(s):  
Celene Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This chapter explores the female voice in the Qur’an by examining dialogic exchanges involving divine or angelic speech directed toward women and girls. It discusses patterns of female speech throughout the Qur’an. For instance, several female figures articulate their thoughts clearly and effectively in difficult situations; Moses’s sister, Moses’s foster mother, and the Queen of Sheba all speak effectively in trying circumstances. Other women are expressive and then also contemplative. Mary, who is otherwise depicted as conversing with angels and crying out with birth pangs, is silent in relation to defending her honor against charges of licentiousness; her vow of silence is a thematic echo of the silence of her guardian Zachariah. With detailed intra-textual analysis, the speech of pious women is compared to that of pious men. Attention is also given to how affective dimensions of heightened female emotion may impact the experience of a Qur’anic listener, reader, or reciter.

Distortions in the Memory of the Pitch of Speech

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Stern ◽  
John W. Mullennix ◽  
Olivier Corneille ◽  
Johanne Huart
Keyword(s):  
Memory Bias ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Speech

Abstract. Corneille, Huart, Becquart, & Brédart (2004) found that people remember ambiguous race faces as closer to a race prototype than they actually are. In three studies, we examined whether this memory bias generalizes to voice memory. In Studies 1 and 2, participants listened to synthesized male and female speech samples (high, moderate, or low pitch) and were asked to identify a voice target when paired against distracters higher or lower in pitch. The results showed that pitch distortions occurred, with the pattern consistent with assimilation toward low and high ends of the pitch continuum. Study 3 replicated this result with a wider voice pitch range. The results parallel those of Corneille et al. (2004) . The implications of this work are discussed.

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