Date:  Wed, 7 Feb 1996 22:08:03 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: Re: urgent help needed



Lynne,

    I did not see the Chronicle story that I know, but there is a

reference in one of Deborah Tannen's books (with a summary in the text and

a bibliographic reference in the notes section) of a carefully controlled

study done by some one in communications at Ohio State U. where students

heard various recorded voices (including native English speakers) matched

with different faces, and had a harder time understanding the voices when

matched with a "foreign" face. If you don't have easy access to the book,

let me know and I could look it up tomorrow.

    Still, it is valuable to have these first-hand accounts of experiences.

Usually the stories are amusing but apochryphal, not very helpful for

footnoting a claim. There is of course an enormous literature on the area

of language attitudes associated with guises, in the work of Wallace Lambert,

Dick Tucker, and Roger Shuy, inter alia.

        Rudy

        --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)