Can blind ppl prove race is real?
what would happen if they put bunch of different race americans in front of them and make them guess their race by their speech?
You can.
It's hard to explain but you can usually pinpoint the race of someone by how they speak English. I have a friend who can easily tell another person he never met was half asian due to his speech patterns alone, it was incredible.
You can.
It's hard to explain but you can usually pinpoint the race of someone by how they speak English. I have a friend who can easily tell another person he never met was half asian due to his speech patterns alone, it was incredible.
I actually have a legit answer to both the OP and the post above. Let me introduce you to a linguistic field called "Prosody".
See, every human utterance can be split into Tone Units (TU): chunks of speech uttered without breaks. In a written sentence, said breaks would equate to punctuation (excluding periods, which mark a break long enough to define a sentence) and breaks between long-ass sentences. To make it easy, I'll illustrate everything with the sentence "Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile".
/ GIVE them an INCH | and they'll TAKE a MILE /
/: Start or end of tone unit
| : Tone unit boundary
This sentence owns two TUs. Also, speech analysts don't write punctuation when doing prosodic transcriptions.
Each TU owns three characteristics:
Starting tone, with rising(↗) / falling(↘) / flat(→) voice pitch,
Word accentuation (lingust fags call it tonality, which makes it mega confusing with the above) (ALL WRITTEN IN CAPS IN TRANSCIPTIONS),
and a "nucleus", which is the most emphasized accented word of the tone unit (written in CAPS and underlined). No matter how lengthy the TU, there shall always be a nucleus paired with it.
/↗ GIVE them an INCH |↘ and they'll TAKE a MILE /
↗ & ↘: Tone
CAPS: Accentuation CAPS: Nucleus
/: Start or end of sentence
| : Tone unit boundary
If you read the example, you might have imagined how the sentence might've played out once spoken. Each English accent in existence owns its own "brand" of speech patterns, meaning that outside of having an innate knowledge of phonetical variations between accents, blind people, with a bit of training could reasonably learn to identify race through speech patterns alone. I also want to notify thread chuds that I have already shoved myself into a locker, and thus, there is no need to come bully me.
-t. a nerd who studied intermediate-level linguistics in his spare time while very bored
