Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 08:59:41 -0600 From: "Timothy C. Frazer" Subject: Re: Almost about dialect Like Beverly, I, too, cannot hear word segmentation. Messages on my answering machine are indecipherable. On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David Bergdahl wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Beverly Flanigan wrote: > > > The high tensed female voice is common here at OU too, but more > > prominently so in non-southern Ohioans, it seems to me. The pitch is > > high and the rate is so fast that often I cannot hear word segmentation > > and have to ask the speaker to slow down. Student announcers on the > > radio are among the worst (they've also never learned how to read aloud > > with anything like normal intonation and pausing). I associate the > > squeaky little-girl pitch with a desire to sound cute and "feminine" -- > > a backlash from a (perceived) masculinizing of women? Horrors. > > Beverly Flanigan > > Ohio University > > > By contrast, on European tv, women with alto voices seem to be preferred. > ===================================================================== == > David Bergdahl Ellis Hall 114c Ohio University / Athens > Associate Prof/English tel: (740) 593-2783 fax: (740) 593-2818 > bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]oak.cats.ohiou.edu > http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~bergdahl > ===================================================================== == >