The Vocal Fries Podcast
Date: February 25, 2019
Episode: 40
Title: On the Basis of Voice
Show Link: https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/ep/s1!a8ddb
In this episode On the Basis of Voice, we talk with Kelly Wright, PhD student at the University of Michigan, about housing discrimination via dialect discrimination.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Housing discrimination
- Dialect discrimination
- Having multiple accents/voices
- City vs. rural rentals
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You can find more information about Kelly on her website, and you can follow her on Twitter @raciolinguistic.
- Listen to her speak about accent and advancement in the American workplace on BBC World Service Weekend Program in August 2018 here.
- Watch her 5-minute Linguist breakdown of Covert Segregation: Dialect Discrimination in the Housing Market (She starts at 29:40!)
- Here are her slides for her talk about the same topic at the Chicago Linguistics Society conference.
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- Accentricity – a podcast about accents and other linguistic features
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- Carrie can talk about indigenous languages of North America (particularly Salish, Inuit and Algonquian), semantics, syntax or the mathy side of language
- Megan can talk about child language acquisition, bilingual language acquisition and Spanish/Spanglish
- Both of the Vocal Fries can talk about all things linguistic discrimination, particularly vocal fry
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