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White listeners’ responses to “sounding black” and “sounding white”: The effects of message content on judgments about languageFootnote1

Fern L. Johnson Associate professor of communication studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Richard Buttny Lecturer in communication and philosophy at the University College‐Far East Division, University of Maryland,
Pages 33-49 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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