Media

Our lab's work on gender, sexual orientation, and speech has been highlighted in the media.

I was in the film Do I Sound Gay? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3997238/

Spoiler alert: yes, I do sound gay.

I did some media surrounding the film:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/28/what-it-means-to-sound-gay/?utm_term=.49fe60e0ee7a

http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/24/this-is-why-some-men-sound-gay-even-if-theyre-not-5263673/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/opinion/who-sounds-gay.html

https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2015/07/09/43581/new-documentary-examines-the-stereotype-of-soundin/ (a call-in show!)

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2014/12/lexicon_valley_speech_scientist_benjamin_munson_on_the_stereotypical_gay.html (Thanks to Mike Vuolo for letting me pick the clip art. BUDDY COLE-4-EVA.)

https://www.bfm.my/lingo-episode-4-deconstructing-the-gay-voice.html

http://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/157th/munson.html

My work on gender and children's speech has been the subject of some articles in the media:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boys-sound-different-long-before-their-voices-break-skhn2bp88

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/16/child-gender-speech-age-five-research-university-minnesota

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/16/gender-dysphoria-present-boys-speech-age-five/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5402005/Boys-unsure-gender-pronounce-letter-S-lisp.html (I would not have chosen this title or this slant, but I include this to be comprehensive. Just to clarify, behaving in a way that is different from what is expected of one's biological sex doesn't indicate confusion.)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5599150/boys-who-lisp-are-more-likely-to-want-to-be-girls-study-claims/ (this one is just laughably off the mark, but it's so bad that it's camp. I particularly love the fact that the picture that comes up in the thumbnail is a picture of me. I think that it speaks to the slant of the Sun that the person who wrote this article was in the same room as the author of the article from the Times of London. Call it 'Rashamon 2018'. I refuse to put a hyperlink in there.)

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/where-did-gay-lisp-stereotype-come

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/minnesota-study-sees-tie-between-gender-speech/

http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/02/n-umn-study-looks-at-ties-between-gender-and-speech

http://www.kimt.com/content/news/Minnesota-study-links-gender-and-speech-475771583.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/podcast/animals-don-t-need-people-be-domesticated-astonishing-spread-false-news-and-links-between

And of course, sometimes I serve as an expert on stories related to speech and language (including the Yanni vs. Laurel kerfuffle of May, 2018):

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/teen-scientists-revolutionary-speech-device-could-grant-language-to-the-voiceless

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/02/23/good-question-why-are-deep-voices-music-to-our-ears/

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/03/29/good-question-singing/

http://www.kare11.com/article/news/n-mpls-school-takes-unique-approach-to-dialect/89-528622978

http://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/161st/Urberg.html

http://acoustics.org/3167-2/

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/16/17358774/yanny-laurel-explained

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38274