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Publication details [#16227]

Ray, George B. and Christopher J. Zahn. 1999. Language attitudes and speech behavior. New Zealand English and Standard American English. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18 (3) : 310–319.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Language as a subject

English, American | English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study analyzed New Zealand listener attitudes toward a New Zealand English speaker and a Standard American English speaker. The speakers altered levels of pitch variation and rate in their delivery of standard content messages. On balance, the impact of the paralinguistic behaviors was greater than that of accent.