Word of Mouth Radio Broadcasts

Young Women as Linguistic Innovators

Post adolescent females lead language/linguistic change and is replicated in many different countries. People who speak Arabic  researched and found that men are behind in language and are more likely to use 'older' sounds. People speak the way they do to express identity, ambition a way of exerting authority status rejection -men has no motivation. Women pass on the way they speak to their children as they spend more time with the children in their early life, women also socialise and go out chatting more.

Social media-

new words that older people may not understand 'fleek' 'bae'

not the issue as everyone can coin words, more to do with how they perpetuate and get taken up from other generations.

LA has a change going on that a vocal feature known as 'vocal fry' is being used in young women at the full front and is young women using a creaky voice- nothing new change in progress?

Kim K uses this creaky voice when talking to Nick Grimeshaw at the end of her utterances.

This 'vocal fry' hasbeen around for along time and is used to seduce people and occurs in many languages.

why has it been picked up in LA? Is it due to reality stars like Kim K?

People in the USA have said that 'it sounds like hell' and that it 'may hurt womens job prospects and they wont get the job' . However language change is not always favoured and it is not just this vocal fry.

Women are a marked group and will attract a lot of attention via creaking.

giggling is also seen as attractive in young women and in the 1920's shrieking was seen as attractive.