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On 6/Apr/11 2:56 AM, Patrick, Peter L wrote: <snip> > ...Of course, you can't believe it when speakers > tell you they're not aware of or bothered by mics, that's just > politeness I think in most cases... You know, it's received wisdom that awareness of microphones changes the way people speak. I'm curious, though, whether anyone's ever actually quantified that sort of effect, or whether it's an effect we assume in our methods but that hasn't actually been confirmed. <snip> -- David Bowie ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1