The impact of accent and status on information recall and perception formation

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• Mary M. Gill (Ph.D., 1991, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) is assistant professor at Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA 50588 and Diane M. Badzinski (Ph.D, 1988, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is assistant professor at the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Speech Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November, 1990. The authors would like to thank Loren Murfield and William Wardrope for their help in coding data.
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