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What has scientific research revealed about gay male speech?
Listeners can accurately guess speakers' sexual orientation at rates greater than chance
How have historically gay male speech characteristics been viewed?
Highly stigmatized
What do researchers confirm about the 'gay lisp'?
It is sometimes known as the gay lisp, though researchers confirm that it is n
How are gay speech characteristics believed to be acquired?
Learned ways of speaking, like many aspects of language
Where may the usage of gay speech characteristics be sometimes coded to?
A limited number of settings outside of the workplace or other public spaces
Test your knowledge of gay male speech characteristics with this quiz. Explore the phonetically significant features and linguistic stereotypes associated with gay male speech, and learn about the sociolinguistic studies conducted on this topic.
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