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