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A gay/straight comparison of gay voices

2015· article· en· W1037691607 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCardinal Scholar (Ball State University) · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusic History and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGender studiesSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Queer linguistics has often been criticized as a field that has no application and is
\nconcerned only with theoretical matters (Motschenbacher, 2010, p. 16). This applies theory to
\nexamining the stereotypes that Americans may attribute to homosexual men.
\nThough it has been shown that there is no such dialect as a gay one, there are features that
\nare stereotypically associated with the speech of gay men. For the purpose of this study, three of
\nthose features (the lisp, a raised pitch, and formal [–iŋ] endings) were examined in US and
\nCanadian stand-up performances of heterosexual and homosexual Caucasian comedians in order
\nto discover how salient the features might be in the US and Canada. Perception studies have
\nexamined these features in the past (Smyth, Jacobs, & Rogers, 2003; Campbell-Kibler, 2007;
\nVan Borsel, et. al., 2009). Though no definitive results were uncovered in these studies, there is
\nsome evidence that people attribute these features to assumed gay speakers.
\nEight Caucasian US and Canadian comedians' performances of "gay" speech were
\nexamined and compared to their natural voices. Four comedians were homosexual, and four were
\nheterosexual. All of the comedians were in their 20s and 30s. Data was collected on the
\npronunciation of [s] vs. [s̪], mean frequency or pitch, and occurrences of formal [–iŋ] vs.
\ninformal [–In] endings. 
\nFormal [–iŋ] vs. informal [–In] endings did not show any patterns, but this is likely due to
\nthe relatively small number of occurrences. Comedians in the heterosexual group and the
\nhomosexual group raised their pitch when performing a gay voice. The heterosexual group,
\noverall, raised their pitch more often than the homosexual group. The lisp was only employed by
\none homosexual comedian, and it was employed by half of the heterosexual comedians.Formal [–iŋ] vs. informal [–In] endings did not show any patterns, but this is likely due to
\nthe relatively small number of occurrences. Comedians in the heterosexual group and the
\nhomosexual group raised their pitch when performing a gay voice. The heterosexual group,
\noverall, raised their pitch more often than the homosexual group. The lisp was only employed by
\none homosexual comedian, and it was employed by half of the heterosexual comedians.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.628
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.078
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it