Voice Changes Meaning: The Role of Gay- Versus Straight-Sounding Voices in Sentence Interpretation
Dados Bibliográficos
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy |
| ANO | 2020 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| ISSN | 0261-927X |
| E-ISSN | 1552-6526 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0261927x19886625 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
Utterances reveal not only semantic information but also information about the speaker's social category membership, including sexual orientation. In four studies ( N = 345), we investigated how the meaning of what is being said changes as a function of the speaker's voice. In Studies 1a/1b, gay- and straight-sounding voices uttered the same sentences. Listeners indicated the likelihood that the speaker was referring to one among two target objects varying along gender-stereotypical characteristics. Listeners envisaged a more 'feminine' object when the sentence was uttered by a gay-sounding speaker, and a more 'masculine' object when the speaker sounded heterosexual. In Studies 2a/2b, listeners were asked to disambiguate sentences that involved a stereotypical behavior and were open to different interpretations. Listeners disambiguated the sentences by interpreting the action in relation to sexual-orientation information conveyed by voice. Results show that the speaker's voice changes the subjective meaning of sentences, aligning it to gender-stereotypical expectations.