Fry vocal: Why more New Zealand women do it

The vocal freak phenomenon, in which the voice lowers and produces a squeaky sound, is gaining popularity among young New Zealand women.

The voluntary voice style is often associated with Hollywood celebrities such as the Kardashians, and studies in the United States and Britain show that his practice is developing there.

But a new research paper published in the Medical Journal of New Zealand says it's gaining ground here too.

Margaret Maclagan, Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury, said that everyone did it in one form or another.

"Everyone uses the vocal fries at the end of the sentence and people use it when they are tired, so it depends on if it becomes habitual."

"As a general rule, when you teach on the vocal fry, it is that you speak in your most serious tone, then you go down two tones lower, then you will speak indeed in vocal fry", a- she declared.

For research, Dr. Maclagan compared the audio archives of young women born in the 1970s to those born in the 1980s and found that the frequency of vocal frying had changed.

"I analyzed the number of vocal quivers within 10 minutes of a recorded conversation, which more than doubled in those 10 years," she said.

Dr. Maclagan said that even Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke from time to time with a vocal high, and that the usual use had no reason to worry, because it was another way of vibrating the strings. vocal.

The lead author of the research paper, Professor Jeremy Hornibrook, an ear, nose and throat surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, noticed that more women were shivering.

He said the cause was unknown, but there were a number of theories.

"This could be a more authoritative attempt to sound, it could be something too confident or too confident, I guess it's a bit fashionable, imitated by the mainstream media who do it," he said. -he declares.

Professor Hornibrook said that even though there was an increase in extreme cases, where whole sentences were fried, there was no need to worry – and this is likely to spread to other groups in our society.

"Young women are the pioneers of new expressions worked and new ways of pronouncing these words, it is rather well accepted."

He said that he now noticed that young men were starting to use an extreme vocal high, showing that the trend seemed likely to remain.