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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also known as “vocal creak,” the style of speaking has become more commonplace among young women — a 2012 study showed that two-thirds of college-age women regularly use the style, which some say ...