Charm or harm: Effect of passage content on listener attitudes toward American English Accents

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-211

  Heaton, Hayley ^a   Nygaard, Lynne C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accent; listener attitudes; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955724945     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X10397288     Document Type: Article

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