There are news stories coming out now about a presentation made earlier this week at the meeting of Acoustical Society of America. What is a little odd is that when the abstract for the presentation was made public back on May 5, 2011, it attracted very little attention. Here's the 5/5 newsrelease and see if you can find the presentation that I'm referring to; http://www.newswise.com/articles/sound-research-at-acoustical-society-meeting Okay, here's the abstract and note that it is written and printed in an almost quaint way, with the numerous typos: http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.may11/asa257.html
The newsmedia has started to play up this research, such as MSNBC: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/23/6704680-gay-or-straight-his-speech-may-give-a-hint and the Chicago Sun-Times: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/5497252-423/straight-or-gay-vowels-in-speech-may-give-it-away.html I predict numerous attempts to replicate this finding and straightforward extensions such as whether one can distinguish straight women from lesbians. In the meantime, mind your vowels. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10736 or send a blank email to leave-10736-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
