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Year:
1931
Short description:
Pear's research on listener perceptions of speaker's personality
Medium description:
BBC radio listeners asked to guess speakers' personalities from accent only
Tags:
history of linguistics
in Britain
Jenkins, Jennifer (2007). English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.66]