Vocal fry: Young Kiwi women are lowering their voices, and no one really knows why - Alice Wilkins

More young women are starting to sound Kim Kardashian 

“Christchurch clinicians believe a type of low, rough voice known as vocal fry is becoming fashionable among middle-class women, particularly Millennials. [...] They found Millennial-aged Kiwi women use between two and three times as much croaky voice as those from Generation X - particularly at the end of sentences. Maori women used vocal fry more than Pakeha.”

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