Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:44:59 -0600
From: Cynthia Bernstein bernscy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: Dialect tapes
See Ken Haley's "Some Complexities in Speech Identification" in the Fall
1990 issue of _The SECOL Review_. He reports that elderly adults more
often than children are misidentified (whites identified as black or
blacks as white) and that whites are more likely than blacks to
misidentify the speaker's ethnicity.
Cynthia Bernstein
Dept. of English
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Tom Murray wrote:
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