VOCAL FRY Flashcards

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4 Registers

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  • Fry (lowest register)
  • Modal
  • Falsetto
  • Whistle
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Statistics

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=18-25 year old women- link to gender
=2/3 of women in America use vocal fry
=men also use it but women are called out for it
=people over 40 think that females using vocal fry lack authority

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Vocal Fry

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  • mimic celebrities
  • male speech
  • sound attractive
  • authority
  • used in cartoons in ‘judgemental’ girl groups for effect (stereotype)
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Variationist Approach

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  • socio linguistics
  • Labov= New York Department Store (1966)
  • Trudgill= Norwich (1972) women are more likely to use ‘correct’ Standard English and use this to gain overt prestige
  • Labov= Gender Paradox (2001) women tend to use forms of lang that seem to have more prestige but women also tend to, more than men, use creative, newer forms of lang
  • second wave feminism
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Diversity Approach

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  • the importance of individual differences between men and women
  • social network theory= how people in organisations and groups interact with each other
  • communities of practise= a group of people who come together for the purpose of a shared activity
  • political correctness= challenging the idea that one group of people has the right to decree lang over any other group
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