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Kalmar, Ivan; And Others – Language in Society, 1987
Presents comparison of Cantonese and non-Cantonese students' expressed judgments of two samples of speech produced by same person but presented as coming from two different speakers. Although all students thought the better speaker would have a better chance for social advancement, Cantonese subjects who spoke with heavy Cantonese accents were…
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies