The development of gendered speech in children and adolescents: a cross-linguistic study of English and Mandarin voice onset time

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dc.contributor.authorMcKenzie, Graham Kado
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorLi, Fangfang
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-26T21:41:52Z
dc.date.available2020-06-26T21:41:52Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractStop consonant production has been shown to vary with speaker’s sex, but cross-language developmental studies are lacking to explain how sex-specific speech patterns come about independent of a specific-language context. In this research, I examined English- and Mandarin-speaking children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 to determine cross-language similarities and differences via measuring the voice onset time (VOT) of their stop productions. VOT of word-initial /t/ and /d/ in Mandarin, and /t, d, p, b, k, g/ in English was measured and normalized by vowel and word duration to control for speech rate. An overall sex difference was found for both languages. This difference was much more robust in Mandarin than in English. Developmental trends and cross-language comparison suggest that males and females utilize VOT for gender-specific production to varying degrees in a different culture.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5738
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0620en_US
dc.proquest.subject0384en_US
dc.proquest.subject0290en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Department of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectEnglishen_US
dc.subjectMandarinen_US
dc.subjectsex specific speechen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectgendered speechen_US
dc.subjectcross language comparisonen_US
dc.subjectphonetic productionen_US
dc.subjectspeech acousticsen_US
dc.subjectpsychologyen_US
dc.subjectpsycholinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectadditive mediative modelen_US
dc.subjectspeech developmenten_US
dc.subjectstop consonantsen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Consonantsen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Phoneticsen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Sex differencesen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Age differencesen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Spoken Englishen_US
dc.subjectMandarin dialects -- Consonantsen_US
dc.subjectMandarin dialects -- Phoneticsen_US
dc.subjectMandarin dialects -- Sex differencesen_US
dc.subjectMandarin dialects -- Age differencesen_US
dc.subjectMandarin dialects -- Spoken Mandarinen_US
dc.subjectConsonantsen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleThe development of gendered speech in children and adolescents: a cross-linguistic study of English and Mandarin voice onset timeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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