Languages
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Linguistics.
Caution! Under Construction
Please be aware that this tag is still under construction and as such is missing information and may be changed or removed at any time. For all the content under consideration for this tag, see the “Languages” folder on Google Drive.
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Although Jeantel, a close friend of Trayvon Martin, was an ear-witness (by cell phone) to all but the final minutes of Zimmerman’s interaction with Trayvon, and testified for nearly six hours about it, her testimony was disregarded in jury deliberations. Through a linguistic analysis of Jeantel’s speech, comments from a juror, and a broader contextualization of stigmatized speech forms and linguistic styles, we argue that the lack of acknowledgment of dialectal variation has harmful social and legal consequences for speakers of stigmatized dialects.
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we found both positive and negative cultural biases as well as a general preference for languages perceived as familiar, confirming the crucial role of sociolinguistic factors and the exposure effect. Beyond that, however, there was little agreement between listeners about what languages or phonetic features they found attractive.
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