Linguistic profiling

Fri Dec 7 14:06:36 UTC 2001

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Dear SEELangers,

Last night ABC World News aired a piece on linguistic racial
profiling (virtually the same piece was aired on NPR back in early
Sept.), " Voice Recognition: Can 'Hello' Cost You a Home If You're
Black?".  Though the article does not specifically relate to any
Slavic languages, it does concern a topic important to Slavic
linguistics, namely language and politics.  I thought it might be of
interest to those of us who teach language and politics/prejudice
courses.

For those who are interested, the article is on the  ABC website,
plus a test that anyone can do in which you hear 10 voices and you
have to guess the race of the person speaking.  Here's the URL:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/linguistic_profiling011206.html

Click on "Linguistic Profiling Test" to do the test.

Sincerely,
Elisabeth Elliott

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Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D.
Russian Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
2001 Sheridan Road
Andersen Hall #4230 (4th floor)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2206
Off: 847-491-8082
Dept.:847-491-5636
Fax:847-467-2596
E-mail: eelliott at northwestern.edu

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