What is it about?
How do preconceived notions about places, and the dialects spoken in those places, affect in-the-moment evaluations of speakers?
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Why is it important?
This paper takes an experimental approach to understanding the mental linkages listeners make between language and place, and the social judgments associated with both.
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This page is a summary of: “Since when does the Midwest have an accent?”, English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, May 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/eww.00008.car.
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