A reply to a note on voice and racial categorization in Britain

Howard Giles (University of Bristol, UK) and Richard Y. Bourhis (McMaster University, Canada) 1982 10 (2), 249-251 Bell's (1982) reanalysis of our data (Giles & Bourhis, 1975, 1976; Bourhis & Giles, 1977) and his interpretation of it, we believe, in no way detracts from our finds; our conclusions we believe are inescapable. We note that Ball raises no objections to the theoretical stance we took concerning the processes underlying the greater speech assimilation amongst British than American Blacks during the mid-1970's.