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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Racial identity from speech

Regarding English, can one detect racial identity from speech?
  

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Not reliably, no. All you can tell is the regional and possibly class accent, which may suggest a racial identity, but you can't take it for granted.

— Nona the brit

  • Not reliably, no.
  • All you can tell is the regional and possibly class accent, which may suggest a racial identity, but you can't take it for granted.
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Not reliably, no. All you can tell is the regional and possibly class accent, which may suggest a racial identity, but you can't take it for granted.
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