Creaky Voice Summary

By this time, the person reading this may very well be sick of seeing the words “creaky voice,” but it really is interesting how a slight variation in speech can impact individuals so severely. Both Yuasa and Slobe’s study reveals the underlying sexism in the American society; they both revealed that language is not equal between the sexes. When men employ creaky voice, they are identified as more dominant and important, but when women use it they are seen as superficial and unintelligent. I agree with Slobe in that media influences are partly to blame for the negative reputation around women’s usage of creaky voice, but I also believe that it is inefficient and unfair to judge a person solely on their quality of voice. The notion that an individual must alter their voice to the correct standard and quality based on their gender is absurd. The notion that the status, wealth, intelligence, and even sexual desirability is depends on an individual’s quality voice is absurd; but we cannot fully deny that it is not happening
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