Evaluative reactions of adolescents toward speakers of standard English and Mexican American accented English

63 Mexican-American, Black, and Anglo adolescent females rated the personalities of male speakers of standard English and Mexican-American accented English on 15 bipolar adjective scales. To demonstrate that the functional separation of speech styles would be reflected in these evaluative reactions, 2 speech contexts (home and school) and 2 sets of rating scales (status stressing and solidarity stressing) were employed. Although standard …