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The stimulus range of vocal tract length cues impacts voice cue use for gender identification

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Adults with normal hearing use fundamental frequency and acoustic correlates of vocal tract length (VTL) for gender identification. The goal of this study was to identify the impact of the range of VTL cues on gender judgments. The fundamental frequency and VTL of resynthesized words were independently scaled, and normal hearing participants were assigned to hear stimuli with either a wide or narrow range of VTL values in a gender identification task. These VTL manipulations yielded larger changes in perceived gender in the narrower than the wider condition, highlighting the impact of the range of stimulus parameters on VTL use.

Source: JASA Express Letters

DOI: 10.1121/10.0047059

Authors: Victoria A. Sevich, Terrin N. Tamati

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Ohio State University

OpenAlex ID: W7225102010