DIALECT PERCEPTION: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND RE-EVALUATION.

This article reviews the empirical research of dialect perception, a branch of person perception. Person perception is an area in social psychology that deals with the perception of human social attributes. The author re-evaluates the concept of dialect perception as defined by some professors in communication. He also re-examines the dependent measures used in dialect perception experiments and seeks to establish that the scales used are not accompanied by evidence of validity and reliability.