Episode 80 - Matthew Hunt on voice pitch

<p>Welcome to episode 80 of Lexis in which Dan and guest interviewer Ben talk to Dr Matthew Hunt, Lecturer of Sociolinguistics, University of Southampton about voice pitch, including:</p><ul><li><p>What it is and how we measure it</p></li><li><p>What it ‘means’, including its ‘social meaning potential’</p></li><li><p>The judgements that we make about pitch and why these matter</p></li><li><p>Gendered perceptions of pitch</p></li><li><p>His work on domestic violence cases and the role of pitch in perceptions of ‘victimhood’</p></li><li><p>Gender and football commentaries</p></li><li><p>Advice to A Level students on exploring pitch and its role</p></li></ul><p>⚠️<strong>Content warning</strong>⚠️</p><p>We discuss domestic violence and abuse in broad terms in part of this episode. </p><p><em>Journal of Sociolinguistics</em> paper on the effect of pitch variation on perceptions of domestic abuse victims: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12723"><u>https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12723</u></a></p><p>The second paper, ‘Gender Penalty? Linguistic Discrimination and Perceptions of Female Football Commentators’ is with <em>Gender &amp; Language</em> and currently in press. We will update the link once it is published. </p><p>Matthew’s website: <a href="https://matthewhuntlinguistics.home.blog/"><u>https://matthewhuntlinguistics.home.blog/</u></a> </p><p>Matthew’s University of Southampton page: <a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/626sz2/doctor-matthew-hunt"><u>https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/626sz2/doctor-matthew-hunt</u></a> </p><p><strong>Lexis is on Bluesky: </strong><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social"><strong>https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Contributors</strong></p><p><em>Lisa Casey</em> </p><p>blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/"><u>https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</u></a> &amp; Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates"><u>Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</u></a></p><p><em>Dan Clayton</em> </p><p>blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/"><u>EngLangBlog</u></a> &amp; Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social"><u>https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</u></a> </p><p><em>Jacky Glancey</em> </p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey"><u>https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</u></a></p><p><em>Raj Rana</em></p><p><em>Matthew Butler </em></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA"><u>https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</u></a> </p><p>Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys <br>Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys"><u>https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</u></a> </p>