Lal Zimman (FAQ)



University of Colorado
Department of Linguistics
UCB 295
Boulder, CO 80309-0295


Publications
Book

  • Zimman, Lal, Jenny Davis & Joshua Raclaw (Eds.) (under contract). Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles and book chapters
  • Zimman, Lal (under revision). More than one wayto sound gay: Trans men and gay-sounding voices. [email me for the manuscript]
  • Zimman, Lal (under contract). The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the body in talk about genitals among trans men. In Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, & Joshua Raclaw (Eds.), Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press. [email me for the manuscript]
  • Davis, Jenny, Lal Zimman, and Joshua Raclaw (under contract). Opposites attract: Retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality. In Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, & Joshua Raclaw (Eds.), Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press. [email me for the manuscript]
  • Zimman, Lal (2010). Female-to-male transsexuals and gay-sounding voices: A pilot study. Colorado Research in Linguistics. 22(1).
  • Zimman, Lal & Kira Hall (2009). Language, embodiment, and the "third sex". In Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 166-178.
  • Zimman, Lal (2009). "The other kind of coming out": Transgender people and the coming out narrative genre. Gender and Language 3(1):53-80.
Proceedings, extended abstracts, and other short papers
  • Zimman, Lal (under review). Talking about trans genitals: A linguistic perspective. Under review for Laura-Erickson-Schroth (Ed.), Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resouce Guide for the Transgender Community.
  • Zimman, Lal (under review). Gender and the voice. Under review for Laura-Erickson-Schroth (Ed.), Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resouce Guide for the Transgender Community
  • Zimman, Lal (2010). Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals [extended abstract]. eLanguage.
Book reviews & notes
Work in progress
  • Transmasculinity and the voice: Diverse masculinities through phonetic bricolage.  For Tommaso Milani (Ed.), Language and Masculinities (invited chapter).
  • "She's just a high maintenance bitch": The creation of discourse continuity in reality TV.
  • A sociophonetic perspective on hyper- and hypoaritculation: Nasal coarticulation and gay-sounding voices.