2026-10-06 コペンハーゲン大学（UCPH）
＜関連情報＞
- https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/10/linguists-madonnas-voice-sounds-younger-than-it-should/
- https://publicera.kb.se/njes/article/view/66422
年齢による変化：マドンナの老いゆく声に及ぼす社会的・生物学的影響 The Age Chameleon: Social and Biological Effects on Madonna’s Ageing Voice
Míša Hejná,Anna Bothe Jespersen,Susan Yi Sencindiver
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Published:2026-06-29
DOI:https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.v25i2.66422
Abstract
This paper studies the dynamic interplay between social, chronological, and biological types of age, particularly how their complex imbrications differentially impinge upon the linguistic expectations of age and ageing women. In order to do so, we conduct a real-time quantitative analysis of interviews with the American singer and songwriter Madonna. Our acoustic analyses of Madonna’s fundamental frequency, F1 and F2 indicate that Madonna presents as difficult to classify in terms of her age profile. We suggest that both f0 and vowel quality variation are used to index age non-specificity, or agelessness. The analyses also provide a window into how the biological and social aspects of age and ageing are negotiated across a female’s life span.
