Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality

The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 103-122

  Podesva, Robert J ^a   Kajino, Sakiko ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consonants; Gay; Gender and sexuality; Intonation; Lesbian; Pitch; Sociophonetics; Transgender; Voice quality; Vowels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979299803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118584248.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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