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Perceiving gender while perceiving language: Integrating psycholinguistics and gender theory.
| Title: | Perceiving gender while perceiving language: Integrating psycholinguistics and gender theory. |
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| Authors: | Tripp, Alayo, Munson, Benjamin |
| Source: | WIREs: Cognitive Science; Mar2022, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p1-32, 32p |
| Abstract: | There is a substantial body of literature showing that men and women speak differently and that these differences are endemic to the speech signal. However, the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying the integration of social category perception and language are still poorly understood. Speaker attributes such as emotional state, age, sex, and race have often been treated in the literature as dissociable, but perceptual systems for social categories demonstrably rely on interdependent cognitive processes. We introduce a diversity science framework for evaluating the existing literature on gender and speech perception, arguing that differences in beliefs about gender may be defined as differences in beliefs about differences. Treating individual, group, and societal level contrasts in ideological patterns as phenomenologically distinctive, we enumerate six ideological arenas which define claims about gender and examine the literature for treatment of these issues. We argue that both participants and investigators predictably show evidence of differences in ideological attitudes toward the normative definition of persons. The influence of social knowledge on linguistic perception therefore occurs in the context of predictable variation in both attention and inattention to people and the distinguishing features which mark them salient as kinds. We link experiences of visibility, invisibility, and hypervisibility with ideological variation regarding the significance of physiological, linguistic, and social features, concluding that gender ideologies are implicated both in linguistic processing and in social judgments of value between groups. We conclude with a summary of the key gaps in the current literature and recommendations for best practices studies that may use in future investigations of socially meaningful variation in speech perception. This article is categorized under:Linguistics > Language in Mind and BrainPsychology > LanguageLinguistics > Language AcquisitionPsychology > Perception and Psychophysics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | SPEECH perception, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, GENDER, EMOTIONAL state, SOCIAL influence, SOCIAL perception |
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| ISSN: | 19395078 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wcs.1583 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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