For outsiders, stereotypes about Southern speech outweigh experience
Lacey Wade explains how the mouth produces the monophthongal /ay/. Credit: Rick Hellman / KU News Service
The phenomenon of behavioral mimicry is well known among social scientists. We mirror the posture, movements and speech of our interlocutors at some unconscious level, but also as a means of trying to identify or communicate more clearly with them.
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