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Gender schemas and perceptions of speech style

Pages 253-267 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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  • Katherine A. Warfel is a doctoral student in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin. The author wishes to thank Drs. Ronald Bassett and Robert Hopper for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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