Research Projects

Queer Language Project

In an ongoing sociophonetics research project, student investigators have examined how gender identity, sexual orientation, and related factors impact speech. More than one hundred student participants have been recorded in the Linguistics Lab’s sound-attenuated booth. The project is focused mainly on vowel quality, pitch, and phonation in queer speech. The team is currently analyzing the data, with the goal of publishing a journal article and presenting at a conference in the near future.