Laryngealized Phonation (’Vocal Fry’) in Speakers of New Zealand English: Two Contrastive Case Studies

Eva Maria Leuf

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Laryngealized Phonation (’Vocal Fry’) in Speakers of New Zealand English: Two Contrastive Case Studies

Eva Maria Leuf

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 4, Issue 3)

Received: 11 April 2016 Accepted: 4 May 2016 Published: 20 May 2016

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Laryngealized phonation, also known as glottalized phonation or vocal fry, has recently received increased research attention as it represents a socio-phonetic marker that characterizes young urban women’s speech. So far, all studies have focussed on speakers of American English and it has been shown that college-aged female students make use of laryngealized phonation in particular to mark the end of sentences. The present study is the first to investigate speakers of New Zealand English to determine whether laryngealized phonation is also a feature of the New Zealand variant of English and to identify possible functional aspects of laryngealized phonation.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 4, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20160403.16
Page(s)	128-132
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Laryngealized Phonation, Glottalized Phonation, New Zealand English, Narrative Discourse

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Eva Maria Leuf. Laryngealized Phonation (’Vocal Fry’) in Speakers of New Zealand English: Two Contrastive Case Studies. Int J Lang Linguist. 2016;4(3):128-132. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20160403.16

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Eva Maria Leuf. Laryngealized Phonation (’Vocal Fry’) in Speakers of New Zealand English: Two Contrastive Case Studies. Int J Lang Linguist. 2016;4(3):128-132. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20160403.16

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