Have you noticed that your teenager’s voice sounds unnaturally low and gravelly, like a door on rusty hinges or a quacking duck? Does it annoy you? You’ve probably detected vocal fry, or what ...

It turns out vocal fry, what the Internet is reporting as a new linguistic trend "creeping" into women's speech isn't much of a trend at all. A writeup of the research describes the speech pattern as ...

When I taught linguistics to undergraduates, I would start each semester off by asking students what sort of assumptions they would they make about a speaker who said, "I ain't got no money." The ...

Macquarie University researchers have found social perceptions, not speech patterns, may explain why vocal fry is more often noticed—and criticized—in women. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 24: Get Your Creak On Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab In the early 1980s, Valleyspeak ...

Scan of a porpoise head showing the phonic lips, which help produce echolocation clicks, and the round, fatty melon that conducts sound into the water Christian B. Christensen, Aarhus University Vocal ...

Kim Kardashian does it. So do Scarlett Johansson and Katy Perry. And it turns out many whales also use “vocal fry,” the deep, gravelly vocal register these celebrities and a growing number of young ...

This speech pattern sees users adopting a raspy, low voice that drags out certain syllables. It's usually associated with women, who are often mocked for it on social media. However, a new study has ...