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Bouchard, Ellen L. – 1969
The subjects in this study, 18 fifth- and sixth-grade students from a middle-class area, were asked to listen to a tape recording with excerpts of conversations by speakers of three dialects: middle-class white, lower-class white, and lower-class Negro. Subjects were asked to rate the personality of each speaker by voice cues alone. In addition,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Grade 5, Grade 6