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 | | To manipulate accent types, we created two matched guises (see Giles and Bourhis, 1976) of the police interview: a guise in which the suspect spoke with a standard accent and a guise in which he spoke with a Brummie accent. |
| | None of the respondents gave Birmingham (or 'Brummie') as their accent and stated that they lived or were born elsewhere, so no difficult decisions had to be made regarding which respondents should be included in or excluded from the Birmingham group. |
| | In much the same way, it would also be foolish to interpret a respondent's observation that his or her accent is less socially acceptable than others as evidence of the inferiority or inherent ugliness of the accent, or, indeed, as an indication of a lack of accent loyalty or pride. |
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