Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 08:05:00 CST

From: Tom Murray TEM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]KSUVM.KSU.EDU

Subject: Dialect tapes



Does anyone know of any good audio recordings that can be used to highlight the

fact that the initial judgments we make about people--their ethnicity, SEC, et

c.--when we can hear but not see them are often false? When I was in graduate

school at Indiana in the late '70s and early '80s, one of my professors had a r

eel-to-reel tape of about 30 speakers, black and white, various SECs, that made

this point beautifully; but when I queried her recently, she said the tape had

been used so much that it eventually wore out. I'll be grateful for any sugge

stions. Thanks in advance.



--Tom Murray TEM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]KSUVM.KSU.EDU