Sex-specific durational difference
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Following a survey of sex-specific duration differences (restricted mainly to vowels) found in a number of languages, data from 48 speakers of American English and 9 speakers of Central Standard Swedish are investigated for sex-specific differences in segment duration. A set of complex patterns arise from the data. Greater female durations are mainly confined to places of prominence, greater male durations to consonantal material. Since differences in whole-utterance duration are found to be the exception, intra-utterance duration differences result from differences in temporal distribution.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003