The social weight of spoken words.
Speech serves a linguistic function, cueing sounds and words, and a social function, cueing talkers and their social attributes. Listeners readily map sound patterns in speech to social representations. This mapping introduces social biases on the recognition and encoding of sound patterns produced by different groups and individuals.
Department of Linguistics, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg 460, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA. Electronic address: sumner@stanford.edu.
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D006801:Humans; D012938:Social Perception; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary
phonetic variation; social variation; speech perception; spoken word recognition