Listener Comprehension of Speakers of Three Status Groups
- 1 April 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 4 (2), 109-112
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383096100400203
Abstract
Listeners of three statuses attempt to reconstruct spoken messages of speakers of three statuses. Speakers of high status were most comprehensible. However, listeners achieved highest relative comprehension when speaker and listener status coincided.Keywords
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