Should vocal fry be put on hold in an interview setting? Vocal fry. It’s a common speech pattern that’s been gaining popularity among young women in the United States. Now researchers suggest that ...

When you go into a job interview, you’re being judged on so many different things - far more than your knowledge of the industry. Many employers asses how you dress, your body language, how ...

"Vocal fry," when someone's voice drops into a throaty, creaky taper, has been under possibly sexist attack in recent years. But, as new research shows, vocal fry is more expressive than just a ...

fry on the right track. “Patriarchy is inventive,” she writes. It’s true. It is. So inventive in fact, it keeps finding reasons to dismiss young women’s voices. Vocal fry is just the latest in a long, ...

In a recent article in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, researchers at Duke University concluded that a speech characteristic known as “vocal fry” may be harmful to people’s career prospects, with ...

Sit up straight. Stop saying “sorry.” Better hope that pink manicure doesn’t make you look ditzy. Exclamation points in your email? Calm down, princess. Women deal with a lot of behavior policing in ...

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, ...

A study published in science journal PLOS One in May suggested that a speech pattern called vocal fry undermines the success of people, especially young women, in the labor market. Vocal fry involves ...

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, ...

Vocal fry, a speech pattern that is characterized by a throaty, low register, has recently been showing up in speaking styles. That creaky sound has also been popping up in pop music from artists like ...

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