Gender in jeopardy!: Intonation Variation on a Television Game Show

Gender & Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-105

  Linneman, Thomas J ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; popular culture; speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993730720     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: 15523977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243212464905     Document Type: Article

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