Stuffed toys and speech perception

@inproceedings{Hay2010StuffedTA,
  title={Stuffed toys and speech perception},
  author={Jennifer Hay and Katie Drager},
  year={2010}
}
Abstract Previous research has shown that speech perception can be influenced by a speaker's social characteristics, including the expected dialect area of the speaker (Niedzielski, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 18: 62–85, 1999; Hay et al. The Linguistic Review 23: 351–379, 2006a). This article reports on an experiment designed to test to degree to which exposure to the concept of a region can also influence perception. In order to invoke the concept, we exposed participants, who… 
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