@book{PierrehumbertBentMunsonBradlowBailey+2004,
url = {https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/COGBIB/entry/cogbib.9693/html},
title = {The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production.},
author = {Janet B. Pierrehumbert and Tessa Bent and Benjamin Munson and Ann Bradlow and J. Michael Bailey},
volume = {116},
abstract = {Vowel production in gay, lesbian, bisexual ~GLB!, and heterosexual speakers was examined. Differences in the acoustic characteristics of vowels were found as a function of sexual orientation. Lesbian and bisexual women produced less fronted /u/ and /Ä/ than heterosexual women. Gay men produced a more expanded vowel space than heterosexual men. However, the vowels of GLB speakers were not generally shifted toward vowel patterns typical of the opposite sex. These results are inconsistent with the conjecture that innate biological factors have a broadly feminizing influence on the speech of gay men and a broadly masculinizing influence on the speech of lesbian/ bisexual women. They are consistent with the idea that innate biological factors influence GLB speech patterns indirectly by causing selective adoption of certain speech patterns characteristic of the opposite sex. Sexual orientation, social identity, and language use are all matters of intense interest. These issues come together in the question of whether gay, lesbian, and bisexual ~GLB! adults are able to use distinctive speech patterns that convey their social identity. In many cultures, a popular stereotype holds that there are systematic differences in speech production as a function of sexual orientation. (Janet Pierrehumbert, Tessa Bent, Benjamin Munsona, Ann Bradlow, and Michael Bailey)},
series = {Journal of the Acoustic Society of America},
keywords = {phonology, speech production, vowel production, sex difference, influence of sexual orientation on vowel production, gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, stereotype},
year = {2004},
booktitle = {Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib)},
publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
address = {Berlin, Boston},
note = {2010},
lastchecked = {2026-04-30}
}