Speech Cues and Social Evaluation: Markers of Ethnicity, Social Class, and Age

This chapter examines the influences of speech markers related to ethnicity, social class, and age. The individuals of Spanish ethnicity spoke with quite pronounced Spanish accents, had Spanish surnames, and were also readily identifiable as individuals of Spanish ethnicity on the basis of visual cues. A person’s style of speech affects inferences about ethnicity, social class and a variety of other personal attributes. The demonstration that …