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今天插播一则报道,关于一个有趣的话题,口音。外国人也有方言?老规矩,主持人的话不用听写,如以下列出,只听写嘉宾的话。
主持人的话①"Please call Stella, ask her to bring those things with her from the store."
HINTS
Steve Weinberger
George Mason
Brooklyn
PhD
Working Girl
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"Everybody has an accent. And if we simply listen to people, we get an immediate impression of them. We compute their sounds. And we make judgments about them."
"That's Steve Weinberger, a linguist at George Mason University. He believes we are taught early on in our lives to make biased social judgments about people based on their speech patterns. While this is normal human behavior, the results are frequently flawed."
"This will give you an example of how we judge accents. Let's listen to this Brooklyn speaker."
"It's a very, very distinct accent, and people might be startled to learn that she is a PhD and a professor of French at a major university."
"So much for the abused "Working Girl" stereotype. How and when do we learn our accent? Well, surprisingly, Weinberger says, it's not from our family." |