CHAT: Subject: Re: CHAT: Males who creak.

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Message from: "BP Jonsson" bpj@netg.se, melroch@hotbot.com

>Message-ID:  <199908240644.IAA19476@...>
>Date:         Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:44:43 +0200
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>Sender: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
>Subject:      Re: CHAT: Males who creak.
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>In-Reply-To:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.9908231524130.8040-100000@...>
>              (message from dirk elzinga on Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:28:01 -0600)
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>> Date:         Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:28:01 -0600
>> From: dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
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>> Hmmm. I understand that creaky voice is also a feature of northern
>> English and Scots English dialects as well. There are some pockets of
>> rural Utah where the older males have creaky voice as well; these places
>> were originally settled by Danish Mormons. Where did my notes go on Utah
>> English?
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>I think the creaky voice thing is restricted to males in Modern Danish
>too. I haven't been able to decide by listening to females, but I'm
>certain that when males try to sound effeminate, the first thing they
>do is dropping the creaky voice.
Putting *on* creak is a standard component of the Swedes' stereotype impersonation of
a Dane -- regardless of sex!

>(Not that the creaky voice is ever very pronounced... I can make my
>voice much creakier than it ever gets during normal speech. But it
>seems to take over some of the functional load of stress and
>intonation, making speech sound more monotonous. That's probably why
>most Danish males sound so boring when they speak English).
>
>Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
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>/BP
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