Nasality in Homosexual Men: A Comparison with Heterosexual Men and Women
Autor: | Belle Vanpoucke, John Van Borsel, Marjan Cosyns, Kim Bettens |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Sexual Behavior Audiology Sexual and Gender Minorities Young Adult 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Speech Production Measurement Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Speech Homosexuality Male Heterosexuality 030223 otorhinolaryngology General Psychology Spontaneous speech Nasality Voice Disorders respiratory system Sexual behavior Sexual orientation Female Nasalance 0305 other medical science Psychology Articulation (phonetics) |
Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior. 48:1443-1449 |
ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
Popis: | Several studies reported that pitch and articulation may vary according to a person's sexual orientation. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether homosexual males also demonstrate differences in nasal resonance compared to heterosexual males. Speech samples of 30 self-identified homosexual males, 35 heterosexual males, and 34 heterosexual females were compared both instrumentally and perceptually. Nasalance scores were calculated for the sounds /a/, /i/, /u/, and /m/ and for an oronasal, oral, and nasal text. In addition, the Nasality Severity Index was determined. Spontaneous speech samples were used for a perceptual evaluation of nasal resonance. Neither the nasalance scores nor the Nasality Severity Index were significantly different between the homosexual and heterosexual males. Heterosexual females, on the other hand, showed significantly higher nasalance values for the oronasal and oral text and a significantly lower Nasality Severity Index than both the homosexual and the heterosexual males. The perceptual judgment revealed no significant differences between the three groups. The results of this study suggest that, in contrast to pitch and articulation, nasality does not tend to vary with sexual orientation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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