Fundamental Frequency of Crying in Two-month-old Boys and Girls: Do Sex Hormones During Mini-puberty Mediate Differences?

Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation
Anja BorysiakKathleen Wermke

Abstract

To evaluate whether the puberty-like sex hormone surge during the first months of life (mini-puberty) affects fundamental frequency (fo) in infant crying as one would derive from hormone influences on voice in adults. Populational prospective study. Twenty healthy normal-hearing infants (nine boys) were recruited for participation. Spontaneously uttered cries were collected from each infant at 8 weeks of age. The cries were acoustically analyzed for mean fo and fo range. The fo properties were correlated to the average serum levels of bioavailable estradiol (E2) (mean E2/sex hormone-binding globulin [SHBG]) and testosterone (T) (mean T/SHBG) across the second month of life. Whereas no significant hormone effect was found for mean fo, a significant negative correlation (r = -0.55) was found between fo range and mean E2/SHBG. No indication for a T influence on fo features was found at this age. Although girls showed a slightly higher mean E2 concentration than boys did, the observed differences in cry fo range were judged to be reflective of an infant's serum concentration of E2 rather than a sex-based difference. In the absence of laryngeal size differences between female and male infants, the result was interpreted as indicativ...Continue Reading

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