In the parodic webseries, VFILES star and Dazed columnist Casey Jane Ellison interviews a panel of art world thinkers, all while wearing black lipstick and speaking through a healthy dose
of vocal fry.
In the new study, scientists at Long Island University (LIU) in Brookville, New York, investigated the prevalence
of vocal fry in college - age women.
The study is the first to quantify the prevalence
of vocal fry in normal speech, although other researchers have noted the pattern.
Abdelli - Beruh also wants to compare the prevalence
of vocal fry on radio stations.
Not exact matches
Pay attention to the pitch
of your voice, and avoid uptalk and
vocal fry if you can.
Even if you've never heard
of «
vocal fry» or «upspeak,» you probably hear people speak in these patterns every day.
Vocal fry is when someone's voice gets lower and turns gravely, usually drawn out at the end
of a sentence.
It's the sound
of the next generation: in a study published in the Journal
of Voice, more than two - thirds
of female college students spoke with
vocal fry.
A form
of speech known as
vocal fry that is low in pitch and creaky sounding is increasingly common among young American women.
The study, published online in the open - access journal PLOS ONE (The Public Library
of Science ONE), indicates that women who speak in
vocal fry are perceived as less attractive, less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, and ultimately less hirable.
Although previous research has suggested that this manner
of speaking is associated with education and upward mobility, a new study indicates that
vocal fry is actually perceived negatively, particularly in a labor market context.
«Our results show that the
vocal fry fad is a hindrance to young women who are trying to find work,» said Klofstad, associate professor
of political science in the University
of Miami College
of Arts and Sciences and corresponding author
of the study.
«You could view the results we found as an extension
of this to an economic context, whereby deliberate lowering
of voice pitch in a sex - atypical manner by women through
vocal fry results in negative perceptions by potential employers.»
One explanation is that because women have higher voices than men on average, the lowering
of voice pitch via
vocal fry results in a sex - atypical voice pitch modulation for women.
More than two - thirds
of the research subjects used
vocal fry during their readings, the researchers will report in a future issue
of the Journal
of Voice.
The patterns were «normal» variations, says co-author and speech scientist Nassima Abdelli - Beruh
of LIU, because the women rarely slipped into
vocal fry during sustained vowel tests — prolonged holding
of vowels such as «aaa» and «ooo» — a classic way to assess voice quality and probe for possible disorders.
Since the 1960s,
vocal fry has been recognized as the lowest
of the three
vocal registers, which also include falsetto and modal — the usual speaking register.
A curious
vocal pattern has crept into the speech
of young adult women who speak American English: low, creaky vibrations, also called
vocal fry.
«But it is common to mark the end
of sentences [with
vocal fry].
Even with the added help
of an imaginary female sidekick and narrator (Joanna Newsom, slightly
vocal -
fried and off - period), «Inherent Vice» dares you to tame it, or compare it to similarly shaggy predecessors — to Robert Altman's radical «The Long Goodbye» or the Coens» «The Big Lebowski».
SONGS INCLUDED: (Each song has a
vocal track, backing track and sheet music) 01 BINGO THE DOG 02 DOGGY IN THE WINDOW 03 FIVE SPECKLED FROGS 04 FOUR FAT SAUSAGES 05 GOLDILOCKS» SONG PROPS: stick, hoop,
frying pan with 4 sausages, table and 3 bowls
of porridge with spoons, 3 chairs (one flimsy chair probably made
of cardboard), 3 sleeping bags for beds
Ugly pre-rendered characters replaced the sprites, and each Bomberman was given a voice, with the likes
of Charlie Adler (Starscream from the Transformers films) and Billy West (
Fry / Stimpy / Doug) lending their
vocal talents.
Near the top
of this fillip I said that the fuss about
vocal fry contained a number
of threads, only one
of which was about women's voices; to hear a broader discussion
of fry and why some folks are irked about it, listen to the recording
of a broadcast on National Public Radio.