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You don't look like me, so you must not talk like me
Research finds that a speaker's ethnicity causes listeners to perceive them as speaking with a foreign accent, even if they don't. I love the expression "the hallucination of foreign accents on native speakers." It makes me think of some drug whose side effect would be that you suddenly hear everyone speaking in funny accents. Wouldn't that be cool? Unfortunately, in this case, the hallucination is probably just racism-induced. Stupid humans.
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