overtones, 30, 38, 39, 42–44, 70, 117, 258, 265
puberphonia and, 85–86
puberty and, 142–43, 159
relative, 131
in questions, 81
in singing, correcting of, 248–49
in tonal languages, 130–31
transgender people and, 159–61
of women’s voices, 150
Pitt, Brad, 158
Plant, Robert, 149
Plato, 200, 259
pleasure, 76, 77, 106, 246
podcasts, 221
political leaders, see leadership and persuasion
Pope, Alexander, 202–3
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 210–12
presbyphonia, 264
Presley, Elvis, 148, 247
Primal Scream, 39–41
Primal Scream, The (Janov), 40, 41
primates, 71–72, 79 apes, 108, 116–17
chimpanzees, 17, 42, 43, 71, 82, 107, 109, 116–20, 125, 142
gibbons, 109, 147
squirrel monkeys, 78–79, 81, 82, 88
Pritzker School of Law, 154
prosody, 10–11, 18, 20, 52, 57, 58, 63, 119, 224 babies’ cries and, 41
in baby talk, 36–37
emotional, 64, 72, 77, 78, 80–81, 90, 109, 268; see also emotion
linguistic, 64, 90
in Pirahã, 138–40
in surgeons’ voices, 151
transgender people and, 160–61
Prum, Richard O., 147
Pryor, Richard, 194, 195, 214
psychiatric patients, 38–39
puberphonia, 85–86
puberty, 142–44, 150, 159
public lectures, 205
Punch, 154
punishment and reward, 112, 113
Puritans, 186, 211
Puts, David, 145–46
Pygmalion (Shaw), 165–67, 173, 174, 195
questions, 81
Quintilian, 200, 210
Ramachandran, V. S., 222
reading aloud, 202
Reagan, Ronald, 219
recursion, 128–32, 136
Rees-Mogg, Jacob, 235
Rehm, Diane, 283n13
Reich, Wilhelm, 40
Reith, John Reith, Lord, 174, 183
Remnick, David, 226, 267
Renaissance Ethics of Music, The (Kim), 252
reproduction and mating, 20, 140, 144–50
reptiles, 75–76, 78, 126
Republican Party, 187, 238–40
respiratory system, 71, 115–16, 121, 127
reward and punishment, 112, 113
rhetoric, 200–203, 205, 210, 217, 232, 224 see also leadership and persuasion
Rickford, John Russell, 190
Ridley, Matt, 61–62
Right Stuff, The (Wolfe), 156
Riley, Boots, 194–95
Rogan, Joe, 221
Rolling Stone, 1, 6
Rolling Stones, 176, 267
Rome, ancient, 200–202
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 181, 215–17, 235
Rosenbaum, Ron, 232
Rushkoff, Douglas, 221
Rymer, Russ, 51
Sanders, Bernie, 181
Sapiens (Hariri), 17
Sapir, Edward, 110–12, 137, 139–40, 195
sarcasm, 11, 95
Scherer, Klaus, 88–92, 94–96, 100–101
Schuller, Björn, 97–103
schwa, 44, 117, 120
Science, 127
Science of the Singing Voice, The (Sundberg), 14
Seabrook, John, 266
Seashore, Carl E., 247–51
Sedaris, David, 142
Seinfeld, 141, 159
sentences breathing and, 116
embedded clauses in, 128–30
Sequoias, 266–68
sermons, 210–14
serotonin, 77–78
sex and gender, 20, 140, 141–64 erotic arousal, 20, 163–64
gay voice, 161–63
lesbian voice, 161–62
mansplaining, 154–55
mating and reproduction, 20, 140, 144–50
pitch of men’s voices, 20, 145–46, 150–51
pitch of women’s voices, 20, 150–53
puberty and, 142–44, 159
secondary sexual characteristics, 146
sexual dimorphism, 141–45, 150, 159, 161, 264
silencing of women’s voices, 154
transgender people, 159–61
vocal fry, 155–58
Shaffer, Paul, 2
Shakespeare, William, 26, 83, 168, 201, 202–4, 268
Shaw, George Bernard, 170, 174, 175, 177, 292n18 Pygmalion, 165–67, 173, 174, 195
Sheridan, Thomas, 169–71, 174, 175, 183
sibilants, 44
sign language, 18, 19
Simone, Nina, 260
Sinatra, Frank, 148
singing, singers, 1–5, 8–11, 14, 245–62, 269 African American folk singers, 247–48, 250
aging and, 264, 266
castrati, 143–44, 148, 149
choral, 143–44, 255–56
emotion and, 251, 259–61
male pop and rock singers, 148, 149
opera, 9, 15, 38, 144, 247–48, 257–59
phonophotography and, 246–47
Pirahã and, 138–40
pitch correction and, 248–49
religion and, 252–54
soul and, 9–10, 15, 252, 260–62
therapeutic effects of, 255–56
vibrato and, 249–51, 299n6
see also music of vocalization
Sirens, 149–50
size bluffing, 80, 86, 95
Skinner, B. F., 112–14
slaves, slavery, 186, 190–91, 193, 208, 209, 213, 227, 247
Smigel, Robert, 184
smiling, 93
Smitherman, Geneva, 214
Snow, Catherine E., 34–37, 59, 129
Social Stratification of English in New York City, The (Labov), 182
Société de Linguistique de Paris, 106, 110, 121
society, 165–98 economic status, 178–81
see also accents
Solnit, Rebecca, 154–55
Sorry to Bother You, 194–95
“Sound and Sense” (Pope), 202–3
Sound on the Page, The (Yagoda), 202
spasmodic dysphonia, 283n13
spectrograph, 80
speech, see language, spoken
Spencer, Richard, 242
Spoken Soul (Rickford), 190
squirrel monkeys, 78–79, 81, 82, 88
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 92–94
Star Trek, 11, 72
Steinem, Gloria, 153
Steiner, George, 232–33
Stern, William and Clara, 51–52
Stevens, Kenneth, 120
Story of English, The (MacNeil), 172
Streep, Meryl, 11, 92–94
Streetcar Named Desire, A, 94
stroke, 50, 64, 110
submission, 80–81, 81, 102, 251
Sullenberger, Chesley, 156
Sundberg, Johan, 14
Supreme Court, U.S., 154
surgeons neurosurgeons, 84
voices of, 151
swearing, 83–84
Sweet, Henry, 173
Swift, Taylor, 248–49
syllables, 30, 32, 37, 57, 98, 131, 135, 136, 139, 225, 227, 248, 253
syntax, see grammar and syntax
Talkin and Testifyin (Smitherman), 214
Talking Back, Talking Black (McWhorter), 193
Tallal, Paula, 30–31
Taxi Driver, 94, 100–101
Taylor, James, 7
testosterone, 146, 159, 263
Thatcher, Margaret, 177
These Truths (Lepore), 215
This American Life, 155
This Is Your Brain on Music (Levitin), 62, 149
Thorpe, David, 162–63
thought, thinking, 268 FOXP2 gene and, 124
language and, 110, 114, 116, 126�
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throat singing, 251–52, 55
timbre, 20, 21, 82, 143, 265 puberphonia and, 85–86
transgender people and, 160
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” 254–55
tonal languages, 130–31
tone deafness, 131
tongue, 44
Tourette’s syndrome, 84, 85, 86
trachea, 117
Trager, George L., 277n4
transgender people, 159–61
Treatise on the Origin of Language (Herder), 105–7
Trump, Donald, 102, 235–43, 297n51
Trump, Ivana, 238
Turner, Nat, 213
Twitter, 102
2001: A Space Odyssey, 11, 72, 103, 114
Tyler, Steven, 7, 266
Ulysses (Joyce), 33
Universal Grammar, 34, 61, 121, 128–29, 137, 138
Valley Girl voice, 196–98
Vance, J. D., 241–42
Vanity Fair, 238
Verbal Behavior (Skinner), 112–14
vibrato, 249–51, 299n6
Visible Speech (Bell), 173
vocal cords, 1–5, 8–10, 13, 14, 42, 69–71 aging and, 263–64
artificial, 265–66
in baby’s cry, 37
“cords” as misnomer, 70
injuries to, 2–14, 22–23, 70, 262
puberphonia and, 86
puberty and, 142, 143, 150, 159
sound production in, 70
in voiced and unvoiced consonants, 27–28, 45, 47–48
volume and, 71
vocal disorders emotion-based, 84–86
injuries, 2–14, 22–23, 70, 262
vocal fry, 155–58, 196, 197, 291n44, 297n51
vocal tract, 42–43, 265
Vogler, Jan, 257
Voice Onset Time, 47–48
volume, 71, 85, 143, 237
vowels, 42–45, 119, 120 larynx position and, 42–45, 119–20
overtones in, 30, 42–44, 70, 117, 258
schwa, 44, 117, 120
Wahlberg, Mark, 182–83
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 107
Warsh, Robert, 248
Washington, George, 205
Webster, Daniel, 206
Wenner, Jann, 1–5, 9, 11, 14, 262, 266
Wennerstrom, Anne, 58
White, E. B., 200, 209
White, Horace, 207
Wilde, Oscar, 177
Williams, Joe, 260
Wilson, Flip, 214
windpipe, 117
Winfrey, Oprah, 11, 194, 207
Wolf, Peter, 2
Wolfe, Tom, 156
women menstrual cycle in, 146
social status of, 152, 153
Women & Power (Beard), 154
women’s voices breathiness in, 150
lesbian, 161–62
menopause and, 150, 263
mothers, 25–27, 37, 53, 60, 129, 140, 168, 175, 193
pitch of, 20, 150–53
silencing of, 154
vocal fry in, 155–58
see also sex and gender
Woo, Peak, 4–6, 8, 9, 69
Woodward, Bob, 238–39
words recursion and, 128
separating in speech, 31–33
stress in, 31–32, 131
syllables in, 30, 32, 37, 57, 98, 131, 135, 136, 139, 225, 227, 248, 253
World War II, 152, 153, 182
wrestling, 237
Wright, Jeremiah, 226
written language and texts, 17–19, 202, 222
Yagoda, Ben, 202
Yeager, Chuck, 156, 157, 197
Zakaria, Fareed, 48
Zappa, Moon, 196
Zeifman, Debra, 38
Zeitels, Steven, 7–14, 262, 265–66, 268
zeugma, 201
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