Attitudes to spoken Australian English: Judgements of ingroup and ethnic outgroup speakersFootnote∗

This research was partly supported by a grant from the Australian Research Grants Scheme to both authors. We wish to thank Catherine O'Hara, Jorge Lopez, and Rosanna Gaiero for help with selection of stimulus speakers, and especially Jodie Redcliffe for her help with stimulus speakers, data collection, and data analysis.

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