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People in different religions have different pronunciations

What is it about?

We'd already found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah have pronunciation systems that are mostly the same, but have some significant differences. We looked more closely and found that Mormons who attend religious services at least weekly have different pronunciations than Mormons who don't. Both of those groups, though, have different pronunciations than the non-Mormons.

Why is it important?

People are able to show fine-grained but locally important social differences by making unconscious changes in their use of language. In addition, religious identity has historically been dismissed as unimportant by sociolinguistic researchers, but this is part of a growing body of research that shows that it really is meaningful.

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