Differences in adult speech: do boy-directed and girl-directed speech exist?

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dc.contributor.authorKeeping, Tori L. S.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorLi, Fangfang
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-21T21:31:05Z
dc.date.available2023-06-21T21:31:05Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractIt has been demonstrated that boys and girls speak differently; however, the question of whether this is directly a result of the input they receive from adults is yet to be determined. Forty university students participated in a speech production study in which they were asked to read a short passage to different gendered images of babies. Acoustic analyses were conducted on their recorded speech, with measures including the centroid frequency of the sound /s/, as well as f0 and intensity. Although there were no significant findings in m1 values, f0 values were significantly different, indicating that adults greeted photos of baby boys with a higher f0. The results also suggest a trend indicating adults may greet photos of baby boys with greater intensity than girls. Although these findings were not robust, they may suggest differences in speech may exist in the ways adults converse with boys versus girls.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6507
dc.language.isoen
dc.proquest.subject0620
dc.proquestyesYes
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectgendered speech production
dc.subjectacoustics
dc.subjectphonetics
dc.subjectchild-directed speech
dc.subject.lcshLanguage acquisition--Sex differences--Research
dc.subject.lcshPhonetics--Sex differences--Research
dc.subject.lcshLanguage and languages--Sex differences--Research
dc.subject.lcshWomen--Language
dc.subject.lcshMen--Language
dc.subject.lcshGirls--Language
dc.subject.lcshBoys--Language
dc.subject.lcshChildren--Language
dc.subject.lcshSpeech--Sex differences
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleDifferences in adult speech: do boy-directed and girl-directed speech exist?
dc.typeThesis
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