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When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-type voice: insights from Puyuma
Puyuma, an understudied indigenous language of Taiwan, features the compatibility of Philippine-type and Indo-European-type voice alternations within...
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Middle voice as generalized argument suppression
Middle voice verbs contrast with transitive active verbs in showing detransitivization. However, they also constitute a heterogeneous set...
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Two steps to high absolutive syntax: Austronesian voice and agent focus in Mandar
The westernmost languages of the Austronesian family show verbal alternations that are traditionally referred to as a voice system. This paper...
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Voice Attractiveness Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers
This book addresses various aspects of acoustic–phonetic analysis, including voice quality and fundamental frequency, and the effects of speech...
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Phonetic correlates to Khalkha Mongolian vowel contrasts: duration, formants and voice quality
The paper reports the results of an analysis of acoustic correlates to phonological contrasts in vowel length, quality and pharyngeal width with data...
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THE PRESENCE OF THE VOICE, INSIDE OUT
In 1830, the British engineer Robert Willis (1800–1875), in his paper “On the Vowel Sounds”, accused the “generality of writers who have treated on...
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The Discourse of Motivation: Judges’ Comments in The Voice Kids Indonesia
This chapter discusses the comments of judges of The Voice Kids Indonesia (TVKI), a competition program broadcast on television involving children....
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Storifying Caribbean Cricket: Voice and Perspective in Paul Keens-Douglas’s “Tanti at de Oval”
Paul Keens-Douglas, renowned Caribbean storyteller, has related various tales on the game of cricket. “Tanti at de Oval”, a notable representation of...
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The Role of Voice Evaluation in Voice Recall
This chapter examines the relationship among a suite of voice evaluation metrics—vocal attractiveness, voice typicality, gender categorization...
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On Voice Averaging and Attractiveness
Several experiments investigating the perceptual, acoustical and neural bases of the ‘voice attractiveness averaging phenomenon’ are briefly...
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Correction to: Writing in One Voice: Thoughts and Memories on Co-Translating ** Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes
In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections has been updated: In chapter “Writing in One Voice: Thoughts and Memories on...
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Voice, Sexual Selection, and Reproductive Success
Beyond the linguistic content it conveys, voice is one of the fundamental aspects of human communication. It conveys an array of bio-psycho-social...
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Authorial Voice in Doctoral Writing: Published Advice
Authorial voice is now acknowledged as an important aspect of academic writing, but one that may be particularly challenging for multilingual...
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Vee and Zee: English Fricatives Find Their Voice
Vee and Zee are straightforward tautonyms with self-matching tautographic symbols in IPA notation. However, this simplicity belies centuries of...
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Über Kulturfunde aus Lehrwerken und Photo-Voice Memos nachdenken: Angehende DaF-Lehrpersonen und ihr Staunen während eines Grundschulpraktikums in der Deutschschweiz
Das qualitativ und interpretativ angelegte Projekt ergründet, inwiefern bei angehenden DaF-Lehrpersonen – allesamt Studierende der Pädagogischen...
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Annotating VOICE for Pedagogic Purposes: The Case for a Mark-up Scheme of Pragmatic Functions in ELF Interactions
Research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication reveals how ELF users exploit language resources strategically to interact with each...
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Voice Attractiveness: Concepts, Methods, and Data
This book comprises contributions on vocal aspects of attractiveness, social likability, and charisma. Despite some apparent distinct characteristics...
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Expanding Participant Voice Within a Social Justice Framework: A Critical Dialogic Approach
This chapter explores participant voice in language learning study abroad research (SAR), advancing a critical dialogic approach to participants and...
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Writing in One Voice: Thoughts and Memories on Co-Translating ** Yong’s Legends of the Condor Heroes
Tales of martial heroes, or wuxia, have been a staple in Chinese storytelling and entertainment for centuries, and one of the most influential modern...
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What Does It Mean for a Voice to Sound “Normal”?
It is rather unclear what is meant by “normal” voice quality, just as it is often unclear what is meant by “voice quality” in general. To shed light...