In a moment of sheer boredom several weeks ago, I decided to watch a new TV show to kill some free time. But I didn’t choose to watch "Parks and Recreation," "The Office" or "House of Cards." No, I ...

Our English language is a living language; a dead language is one that is no longer in everyday use, such as Latin. A living language changes; a dead language never changes. Now, in the 21st century, ...

That data also indicates men may have employed vocal fry more than women in the recent past. To fill in some of these research gaps, researchers in Australia recently conducted some much-needed, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. People with perfectly normal voices who, for unexplained reasons, talk with a creaky voice -- vocal fry, it's called -- are creaking themselves right out ...

In the beginning, there was Cher Horowitz. Then came Britney, Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, and Kesha. What started as the markers of an oft-aped "Valley girl" accent — from uptalking, to the ...

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 ...

Fargo - There's a rather annoying vocal trend that's been creeping - or creaking rather - into conversations. It's known as "vocal fry," "creaky voice," "Kardashian style," and in a more official ...

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For much of 2023, everyone was fixated on Barbie. Meanwhile, I’ve been fixated on everyone. Nowadays, public perception and that which it critiques, speak from the same megaphone. What I’m hearing ...

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Journalist Jessica Grose, linguistics professor Penny Eckert and speech pathologist Susan Sankin discuss upspeak, vocal fry and why women's voices... From Upspeak To Vocal Fry: Are We 'Policing' Young ...