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You’re Being Judged By How You Talk

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How you say “park the car at Harvard yard” is a pretty good indicator of where and how you grew up –- one little sentence with a lifetime of prejudices baked in. Katherine Kinzler, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the biased ways we view dialects and accents. Her book is “How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You.”