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Breathiness |
Males Females |
Younger, more artistic More feminine, prettier, more petite, more effervescent, more high-strung, and shallower |
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Thinness |
Males Females |
Did not alter listener’s image of the speaker; no significant correlations Increased social, physical, emotional, and mental immaturity; increased sense of humor and sensitivity |
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Flatness |
Males Females |
More masculine, more sluggish, colder, more withdrawn More masculine, more sluggish, colder, more withdrawn |
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Nasality |
Males Females |
A wide array of socially undesirable characteristics A wide array of socially undesirable characteristics |
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Tenseness |
Males Females |
Older, more unyielding, cantankerous Younger; more emotional, feminine, high-strung; less intelligent |
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Throatiness |
Males Females |
Older; more realistic, mature; sophisticated; well adjusted Less intelligent; more masculine; lazier; more boorish, unemotional, ugly, sickly, careless, inartistic, naïve, humble, neurotic, quite, uninteresting, apathetic. In short, “Cloddish or oafish” (Addington) |
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Orotundity (Roundness
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Males
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More energetic, healthy, artistic, sophisticated, proud, interesting, enthusiastic. In short, Ahardy and aesthetically inclined.” (Addington) Increased liveliness, gregariousness, esthetic sensitivity, and “increasingly proud and humorless” (Addington) |
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Increased Rate |
Males Females |
More animated and extroverted More
animated and extroverted |
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Increased Pitch Variety |
Males
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More
dynamic, feminine, aesthetically inclined More dynamic and extroverted |