The acoustic and perceptual correlates of gender in children's voices

儿童声音中性别的听觉和感知相关性

• 批准号: 440882807
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Adrian Paul Simpson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/440882807?language=en
• 关键词: acoustic; perceptual; correlates; gender; children

Until puberty there are hardly any anatomical and physiological differences in the vocal apparatus of girls and boys. Nevertheless, gender-specific differences have repeatedly been found in prepubertal voices, in some cases from the age of two and a half years. In addition, adult listeners are able to identify the sex from a child's voice better than chance. In individual cases, recognition even rises well above 90% and reaches gender recognition values otherwise found in adult voices.In recent years, the construction of gender in childhood has attracted increasing interest, not least due to a sharp increase in the number of children in Germany and other countries diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The study of the vocal expression of gender thus has a high social relevance as well as a scientific one. In the proposed project, the perceptual and acoustic correlates of gender in prepubertal voices will be investigated in a long-term study. Recordings of the same primary school children will be made at three points in time (1st-3rd grade). There are only very few studies on the vocal expression of gender in children with German mother tongue and, as yet, no long-term study.

在青春期之前，女孩和男孩的发声器官几乎没有任何解剖和生理上的差异。然而，在青春期前的声音中反复发现性别差异，在某些情况下，从两岁半开始。此外，成年听众能够从孩子的声音中更好地识别出性别。在个别情况下，识别率甚至上升到90%以上，达到了成人声音中的性别识别率。近年来，儿童性别的建构引起了人们越来越多的兴趣，尤其是由于德国和其他国家诊断为性别焦虑症的儿童人数急剧增加。因此，对性别声音表达的研究不仅具有很高的社会意义，而且具有很强的科学意义。在本项目中，将对青春期前声音的感知和声学相关性进行长期研究。同一小学生的录音将在三个时间点（1 -3年级）进行。关于德语母语儿童性别语音表达的研究很少，也没有长期的研究。