This experiment is an eye-opener in terms of how the results came out. Even though my hypothesis was correct in that the speaker with the creaky voice was less likely to get hired than the normal voiced speaker, it is still unexpected that even the normal voiced speaker is criticized harshly. This …show more content…
The data difference between creaky voice and non-creaky voice was not as monumental as I had previously hypothesized. There is evidence to suggest that there was something wrong with the voice that had no creak in it as well. In fact, the participants rated the creaky voice speaker fairly high in terms of friendliness, and as mentioned by Yuasa, creaky voice can be used to express positive-politeness that connects two speakers together (Yuasa, 2010, p. 320). Perhaps small creaks in one’s voice are necessary in conversations in order to show one’s