Real-time speaker evaluation: How useful is it, and what does it measure? Supplemental Materials
Martha Austen, Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler · Language · 2022
Indexical associations are a crucial construct in third-wave variationist work, but little is understood about how perceivers incorporate indexical information over the course of sociolinguistic perception.In classic speaker evaluation, participants listen to a stimulus and report evaluations after listening, limiting our access to the moment-to-moment process of updating social percepts.Studies developing in-the-moment tools have combined methods development with substantive theoretical questions, hindering assessment.We test a continuous evaluation tool using a gestalt style shift and the English variables (ING) and like.The tool captures the expected reactions but has poor time granularity and very high variability.Divergence between slider responses and after-the-fact ratings suggests that the tasks may depend on a different mix of processes, underlining the multiplicity of sociolinguistic cognition processes.