This was a really interesting test! I started out doing well but got confused by some of the Hispanic speakers. In general, I accurately guessed the races of the other speakers. It was really hard for me to place why I was able to guess the speaker's races, but I think that a lot of it was my own ear and comparing the speakers to people I know or have heard before. In addition, I think the inflection in their voices during the sentence helped me identify race. Since I couldn't go on vocabulary of syntax, I had to really listen only to sound. It made me go back to the video we watched earlier on Youtube:
And this one, too:
About Me
- Eric
- I'm an undergrad at Stanford University and this blog was created for my freshman year Indroductory Seminar on linguistics called "What's your accent?" Now, it's a general blog about my experiences at school (everything, really) and I post a bunch of different stuff. This year (2010), it's mostly things from my engineering classes.
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