Acting Gay: Male Actors Shift the Frequency Components of Their Voices Towards Female Values When Playing Homosexual Characters

2011/10/13 by Valentina Cartei, David Reby · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Expression (computer science) #Formant #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Media, Gender, and Advertising #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Psychology #Sexual orientation #Social psychology #Stereotype (UML) #Timbre

paper · doi:10.1007/s10919-011-0123-4

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