Accents and Dialects Flashcards

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Howard Giles Capital Punishment Experiment

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• Groups of students listened to presentations about capital punishment from speakers with Somerset, South Welsh, Birmingham and RP accents.
• They found RP most impressive and Birmingham least impressive.
• They found regional accents more persuasive than RP accents

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