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Nominative Determinism Quiz — When Names Match Professions

Posted by Grant Barrett on April 17, 2021 · Add Comment

A Brown Study

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Someone Who is Always to Blame

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Deviled Eggs (episode #1554)

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Play It by Ear (episode #1553)

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 31, 2020 · Add Comment

How does social context shape our perception of language? When hiking the Appalachian Trail, a young woman from Wyoming found that fellow hikers assumed she was from another country, not only because of how she spoke, but also how she looked. Sometimes our perception of other people’s accents have more to do with social context [...]
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Perceptual Dialectology

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 29, 2020 · Add Comment

When Liz from Laramie, Wyoming, was hiking the Appalachian Trail, some fellow hikers and locals assumed from her accent that she grew up outside the United States. The assumptions made by people she met probably had more to do with the context rather than her own particular accent. The branch of linguistics called perceptual dialectology [...]
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