There are a lot of factors that go into choosing a baby name.
給小寶寶起名字有諸多影響因素。
It could be a fandom thing, such as with the babies named Anakin or the children named after Game of Thrones characters.
給孩子取名阿納金（天行者，《星球大戰(zhàn)》中重要人物）或者根據(jù)《權(quán)力的游戲》來取名是粉絲可能會做的事情。
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But it could be also simply be the way it sounds. According to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people tend to assign certain names to boys and others to girls based on the first phoneme.
但有時(shí)候可能僅僅因?yàn)榘l(fā)音關(guān)系，《性格與社會心理學(xué)雜志》發(fā)表的一項(xiàng)新研究稱，根據(jù)頭一個(gè)音素，人們傾向于給男孩子取有些特定的名字，而給女孩子取其它一些特定的名字。
The researchers analyzed 270 million recorded baby names in the US from 1937 and 2013 and found that names typically assigned to boys were voiced and began with a “hard” phoneme, or one that vibrated the vocal cords, while girls had “softer” names.
研究人員分析了美國自1937年至2013年2.7億記錄在冊的嬰兒名字，發(fā)覺分給男孩子的名字通常是濁音發(fā)音，開頭音素”有力“，或者需要震動聲帶。而女孩子的名字則”更加輕柔”。
To judge the difference for yourself, say your name and see if the first sound is made purely with your tongue and lips (so a “soft” name) or if you use your throat.
要親自作鑒別，說說自己的名字，看看第一個(gè)音是不是單純靠舌頭和嘴唇發(fā)出的（這就是“柔和”的名字），還是說需要用喉嚨。
Of course, this study isn’t the end of all conversations about names and gender, especially considering how gender can’t be simplified between just two ends of a spectrum.
當(dāng)然，這一研究并不能對名字和性別一概而論，尤其考慮到性別并不能分化成兩極來談。
It’s also not a definite identifier of gender, as there are many names that are typically assigned to girls that start with that hard phoneme, such as Jessica, Yvonne, and Ariel.
這同樣也不能以此絕對判斷性別，因?yàn)橛行┑湫偷呐⒆用珠_頭音素就頗有力道，如Jessica、Yvonne還有Ariel。
The study provides more insight into how we perceive sounds and the relationships between those sounds and meaning. Why do we find certain words repulsive?
這項(xiàng)研究深入研究了我們是如何洞察聲音的、如何看待聲音和意義之間的聯(lián)系的。緣何我們對有些特定的詞反感？
Why do others sound more approachable? These are questions that can crack open a language and a culture.
又覺得有些聲音特別親切？這些問題可以打開語言和文化的大門。
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