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Karpf, Anne.

The human voice : how this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are / Anne Karpf.

1st U.S. ed.

New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.

xi, 399 pages ; 25 cm

An examination of different aspects of the human voice explains what the voice reveals about each individual, including such traits as gender, age, education, mood, social status, and emotion.

Voice.

Elocution.

Voice -- Social aspects.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-388) and index.

What the voice can tell us -- How the voice achieves its range and power -- How we colour our voices with pitch, volume, and tempo -- What makes the voice distinctly human -- The impact of the mother's voice (even in the womb) -- Mothertalk: the melody of intimacy -- The emergence of the baby's voice -- Do I really sound like that? -- How our emotions shape the sounds we make (and other people hear them) -- Male and female voices: stereotyped or different? -- How men and women's voices are changing (and why) -- Cultural differences in the voice -- From oral to literate society -- The public voice -- How technology has transformed the voice -- Voiceprints and voice theft -- How people and corporations are trying to change the voice.

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