ARE THERE GENDER-BASED DIFFERENCES IN DISFLUENCY PHENOMENA? OR, ARE THERE 'MALE' AND 'FEMALE' DISFLUENCIES IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH?

• Authors: Horvath Viktoria
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Gender-related differences have long been a matter of interest for various disciplines, including linguistics, and specifically psycholinguistics, too. Verbal discrepancies observed in early infancy can also be attested in adults, with respect to language use, and to temporal and other characteristics of speech. The present paper seeks to find an answer to the question of whether differences between male and female speech, revealing hidden strategies of speech planning, can be detected in the disfluencies of spontaneous utterances. Our hypothesis was that men and women apply diverse strategies, of course not consciously, in order to resolve disharmonies based on the paradox of speech planning and implementation, revealed at the surface by preferences towards dissimilar types of disfluencies. In order to support that hypothesis, we have recorded the spontaneous speech of 18 adult speakers with the help of task-oriented dialogues. The results have born out our hypothesis: we have found differences both in the number of disfluencies (roughly twice as many were observed in the speech of male subjects than in that of female ones) and in their preferred types, a fact that was also corroborated by statistical analysis.

Keywords

EN

DISFLUENCY; GENDER; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 315-323
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horvath Viktoria

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090424